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AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
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ON FREE PUBLIC VIEW 
AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


MADISON SQUARE SOUTH, NEW YORK 


BEGINNING SATURDAY, JANUARY 20th, 1917 


AND CONTINUING UNTIL THE DATE OF SALE 


rel TREASURES 


FROM THE 


IMPERIAL PALACE 
PEKIN 


TO BE SOLD BY DIRECTION OF 
MESSRS. YAMANAKA & COMPANY 


AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 
AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AFTERNOONS 
JANUARY 26th AND 27th, 1917 
BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’CLOCK 


No. 55—EMPRESS’S CROWN ORNAMENT 


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ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 


OF THE 


FURNITURE AND EMBELLISHMENTS 


FROM THE 


IMPERIAL PALACE 
PEKIN 
EXQUISITELY WROUGHT GOLD ORNAMENTS FROM 
THE CEREMONIAL CROWNS OF THE 
FORMER EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF CHINA 


AND NUMEROUS OTHER OBJECTS OF 
ANTIQUITY AND DISTINCTIVE ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE 


RECENTLY ACQUIRED BY THE FIRM OF 


MESSRS. YAMANAKA & COMPANY 


NEW YORK JAPAN CHINA 


TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 
ON THE AFTERNOONS HEREIN STATED 


THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY 
MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY Bars a0 39 4 
AND HIS ASSISTANT, MR. OTTO BERNET, OF 
THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, MANAGERS 
NEW YORK 
1917 


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A SMALL COLLECTION OF DIVERSIFIED 
INTEREST 


Nothing could be farther from the routine of art collections 
formed for the auction market than the successive aggregations, 
be they small or large, brought together and offered with the 
succeeding’ years by the Messrs. Yamanaka & Company to lovers 
and admirers of Oriental art in New York and its tributaries— 
the substantial communities of the wide United States. And the 
recognition of the fact has been spontaneous and continuous, so 
much so that an inclusive range of friends await each season with 
confident hope the display to which they look forward. The 
knowledge has spread itself—I think it has not before been com- 
mented on—that these sales are never “stock riddances” but 
invariably offerings which the purveyors are able to put forward 
with the assured belief that they will afford artistic pleasure to 
spectators, collectors, and thoughtful decorators and furnishers 
of the home alike. For the Yamanakas have a varied corps of 
searchers at work in the Orient throughout the year, aside from 
the annual visits made to China by New York representatives and 
members of the home house in Japan. 

One of the striking exhibits of the present collection is a 
series of pure gold ornaments of the Imperial Crowns—those of 
both Emperor and Empress—disposed of by the Imperial family 
last spring. Should one contemplate, after lifting these finely 
spun and jeweled fabrics of the precious metal, sharing for an 
evening the onerous burden which imperiality thus exemplified 
incurs, one would readily agree that uneasy lies the head that 
wears a crown. But the imaginative might conceive of a single 
one of these golden phcenixes from the Empress’s crown as a 
stunning tiara on a tall American princess, a sovereign of her 
people, on certain occasions. 

In beauty and softness of color some of the imperial brocades, 


some of the velvets and embroideries, and in color and design 


some of the tapestries, here found, are remarkable. 
some very choice Chinese rugs included. Among the bri ) 
a set of decorations used in the Buddha room of the 
Palace. <A aoe of Bec of furniture were ae 


renovation some years ago. 
A few choice porcelains are found, some ae Y 
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New York, January, 1917.” 


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CONDITIONS OF SALE 


1. Any bid which is merely a nominal or fractional advance 
may be rejected by the auctioneer, if, in his Judgment, such bid 
would be likely to affect the sale injuriously. 

2. The highest bidder shall be the buyer, and if any dispute 
arise between two or more bidders, the auctioneer shall either de- 
cide the same or put up for re-sale the lot so in dispute. 

3. Payment shall be made of all or such part of the pur- 
chase money as may be required, and the names and addresses of 
the purchasers shall be given immediately on the sale of every lot, 
in default of which the lot so purchased shall be immediately put 
up again and re-sold. 

Payment of that part of the purchase money not made at 
the time of sale shall be made within ten days thereafter, in de- 
fault of which the undersigned may either continue to hold the 
lots at the risk of the purchaser and take such action as may be 
necessary for the enforcement of the sale, or may at public or 
private sale, and without other than this notice, re-sell the lots 
for the benefit of such purchaser, and the deficiency (if any) aris- 
ing from such re-sale shall be a charge against such purchaser. 

4. Delivery of any purchase will be made only upon pay- 
ment of the total amount due for all purchases at the sale. 

Deliveries will be made on sales days between the hours of 
9 A. M. and 1 P. M., and on other days—except holidays— 
between the hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. 

Delivery of any purchase will be made only at the American 
Art Galleries, or other place of sale, as the case may be, and only 
on presenting the bill of purchase. 

Delivery may be made, at the discretion of the Association, 


of any purchase during the session of the sale at which it was sold. 


5. Shipping, boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business 
in which the Association is in no wise engaged, and will not be 
performed by the Association for purchasers. The Association 
will, however, afford to purchasers every facility for employing 
at current and reasonable rates carriers and packers; doing so, 
however, without any assumption of responsibility on its part 
for the acts and charges of the parties engaged for such service. 

6. Storage of any purchase shall be at the sole risk of the 
purchaser. Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer, 
and thereafter, while the Association will exercise due caution in 
caring for and delivering such purchase, it will not hold itself 
responsible if such purchase be lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. 

Storage charges will be made upon all purchases not removed 
within ten days from the date of the sale thereof. 

7. Guarantee is not made either by the owner or the Asso- 
ciation of the correctness of the description, genuineness or au- 
thenticity of any lot, and no sale will be set aside on account of 
any incorrectness, error of catologuing, or any imperfection not 
noted. Every lot is on public exhibition one or more days prior 
to its sale, after which it is sold “‘as is” and without recourse. 

The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot 
correctly, and will give consideration to the opinion of any trust- 
worthy expert to the effect that any lot has been incorrectly cata- 
logued, and, in its judgment, may either sell the lot as catalogued 
or make mention of the opinion of such expert, who thereby would 
become responsible for such damage as might result were his 


opinion without proper foundation. 


AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, 
American Art Galleries, 
Madison Square South, 
New York City. 


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THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION 


MANAGERS 


SALE AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


COLLECTION OF MESSRS. YAMANAKA & CO. 


Afternoons of Friday and Saturday, 
January 26 and 27, 1917 


To save time and to prevent mistakes each Purchaser 
will oblige the Managers by filling in this slip and hand- 
ing it to the Record Clerk or Sales Attendant on making 
the first purchase. 2 

Purchaser’s Name— + One a ee a 


Address in Full NUE NEoaetes 


Amount of Deposit 


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FIRST AFTERNOON’S SALE 


FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1917 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


BEGINNING AT 2.30 O CLOCK 


Nos. 1 to 194, inclusive 


1—Buve Guass Snurr Botrite 
Transparent glass of a rare and highly prized quality, 
with mirror surface, its color a deep, crystalline azure. 
Flattened full-moon shape, with cylindrical neck and re- 
cessed foot. 


2--CINNABAR LaAacauER SNUFF BortTLe 


Ovate leaf shape with small foot, and short, expanding 
neck. Carved all around with blossoming peonies, in cavo- 
rilievo, under a_ sceptre-head border; incised medallion 
under foot. 


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IntAIp SNurFr Borrie 


Fan shape, the sides flat, and tapering toward the foot. 
Black lacquer, minutely inlaid with mother-of-pearl in 
rich tones set off by gilding; on one face a female figure 
borne upon the waves, and on the other a lotus pond in blos- 
som. Inscriptions on both faces. Sides, shoulder and 
stopper in mosaic of the same materials. 


First Afternoon 


4—TIvory Snurr Jar, LacauERED 


Broad flask shape with shoulder and narrow sides flattened. 
On one face blossoming poppies with insects fluttering over 
them, delicately etched in reserve in a lustrous coating 
of black lacquer; on the opposite face other blossoms and 
a grasshopper, with an inscription, similarly effected. 


5—Ferr-ts’ur JADE SnuFF BorTrLeE 


Ovoidal flask shape; flat foot. Rich and extensive emerald 
mottling, amid the soft gray-white of water-melted snow. 
Brilhantly polished. 


6—Fei-ts’u1 JapE SNurr Borrie 
Ovoidal, the flattened sides tapering toward a short foot. 
Soft translucent emerald-green, with mottlings of gray- 
white and black opaque patches, under a brilliant polish. 


7—Fer-ts’u1 JADE Snurr BorriLe 
Pilgrim-bottle form, the flattened sides tapering downward. 
Translucent jade of mirror surface, with banks and feathery 
strata of richest emerald in clouds of soft, light, vaporous 
gray. 


First Afternoon 


8—Briack JADE SnNuFF BoTTLeE 


Flattened flask shape with oval foot. Opaque jade of rich 
ebony black, uniform in quality and of soft lustre; an 
unusual piece. Yellow tourmaline and coral stopper with 
ivory spoon. 


9—F ri-Ts’u1 JADE SnuFF BoTrrie 


Bulbous ovoidal flask-shape with low foot. Translucent 
jade of a soft, ight fog-gray, with cloud-areas of delicate 
emerald mottled in tones of deeper green and showing a 
shoulder touch of black, near which a bat and cloud scrolls 
are carved in light relief. Mirror polish. 


10—Pink Corau Snurr Botryue 


Bulbous flask shape with molded foot. Carved in bold re- 
lief with a man leading a refractory water buffalo, and a 
lady mounted on a horse and followed by a banner-bearer 
afoot, before a crenellated wall. 


First Afternoon 


11—Pexine Enamet Snurr Borrre (Ch’ien-lung) 


An imperial production. In the form of an ovoidal vase, 
slightly flattened, with gilt termini and stopper. Richly 
painted at imperial command by a European artist working 
in China, with a pastoral scene showing a lady and youth 
seated in a flowery field traversed by a stream, sheep near 
them, and distant buildings visible under a brilliant sky. 
Imperial mark under foot. 


12—Parr SMALL STATUETTES 


Miniature standing figures of a nobleman and his wife, 
carved of pink coral mottled in white and brightly polished. 


18—THrReEE WHITE JADE ORNAMENTS 


Miniature figures, carved in the round, representing re- 
spectively a seated lumberman of the mountains, ax in hand, 
a seated fisherman, and a standing farmer with his hoe over 


his shoulder. All brilliantly polished. 


First Afternoon 


14—Turee Wuitre JADE Birp ORNAMENTS 


Storks in different attitudes, each standing on a leaf, carved 
with great delicacy and brilliantly polished. 


15—WhuiTtTE JADE ORNAMENT 


Standing figure of an angel, a female angel, smiling, deli- 
cately carved in translucent jade of the prized quality de- 
scribed as having the hue of liquescent mutton fat; bril- 


liantly polished. 


16—Whuire Jape Ficure Group 


Man mounted on a trotting mule, his head held high, and 
his whip hand behind him, the whip allowed to curl down 
the animal’s rump. Translucent ‘‘mutton fat”? jade with 
brilliant polish. 


17—Parr Miniature FLoweriInc PLANTS 


Representing the chrysanthemum and peony, respectively, 
made up of carved green jade, coral, lapis-lazuli and tur- 
quoise, set in white jade flower pots with ju-i feet. 


Heights, 31%, inches and 3%, inches. 


18—AQUAMARINE BRACELET-ROSARY 


Composed of eighteen beads of pale and brilliant aquama- 
rine and two larger beads of pink tourmaline, and having 
a fei-ts’wi jade pendant carved and pierced in pheenix- 
and-peony motive, with pink tourmaline drops, the strings 
beaded with seed pearls. 


Length of strand, 10 inches; length of pendant, 5 inches. 


19—SoaPsTONE STATUETTE 


Miniature figure of Marco Polo, in Chinese execution. The 
Venetian is shown with round and smiling countenance, and 
long curly hair, seated in Buddhistic posture with hands 
clasped over his raised right knee, a loose robe falling from 
his shoulder and leaving the upper body nude, Gray soap- 
stone with a vein of black. 


First Afternoon 


20—CrystaL FigurE ORNAMENT 


Boy seated on the floor, playing a drum; carved in bril- 
liant crystal with hair lines and more pronounced markings. 


21—Korran Harr Pin 


The long pin silver and silver-gilt, 
with a lightly engraved lotus-petal 
border; at its head a cloisonné en- 
amel floral ornamentation in blue, 
green and aubergine, enclosing a 
bold chrysanthemum cluster carved 
of clouded yellow amber. | 


Length, 10% inches. 


22—__GREEN JADE-STONE Box’ witTH 
CovEeR 


In shape of a peach lying on its 
side and somewhat flattened, split 
laterally to form the cover. It is 
partly surrounded by a branch and 
leaves, carved in openwork, and a 
bee, dragon-fly and ladybugs are 


carved in relief. 
Length, 314, inches. 


23—F kz1-Ts’ur JADE CouUPE 


Compressed circular form with 
lightly rounded lip. Ornamented 
with peony branches in flower and 
bud, carved in relief and openwork 
embracing the shoulders and extend- 
ing underneath the bottom between 
them a bee in relief appears on 
the shoulder. Rich emerald green 
mottlings in the soft white of melt- 
ing snow, and underneath, soft 
brownish patches; brilliant polish. 
Carved ivory stand. 


Length, 41%, inches. 


No. 21 


First Afternoon 


24—Rocx Crystat Couper 


Inverted cone shape, truncated to form a small foot that is 
concaved underneath, with mounded shoulder and inward- 
rounding lip. Brilliant crystal with fine polish, unadorned. 


Diameter, 334 inches. 


25—Parr Rock Crystat Vases 
Slender oviform with short neck and spreading lip, and 
socket foot. Brilliant, clear rock crystal with smooth, 


bright polish. 
Height, 51, inches. 


26—CrystaL ORNAMENT 
A fat and heavy bovine, standing, with a leading-rope 
coiled from its mouth over its rump and held by a boy who 
is climbing over the animal’s shoulder. Carved in brillant 
hair crystal, partly clear and partly in reddish wine tones. 


Length, 514, inches. 


27—AMBER ORNAMENTAL GrouP 
A boy holding a vase is largely enveloped in a floral branch 
rich in blossoms, carved in openwork, the vase from which 
the branch issues being incised with fret borders and a 
bird in a blossoming tree. At one side is a lion and at the 
other a bat. Rich ruby, brown and golden translucent 


amber of brilliant surface. 
Height, 434 inches. 


28—AMBER STATUETTE 
Figure of Tobosaku standing, or rather halted momen- 
tarily in a walk, holding aloft a branch heavy with the 
peaches of longevity. He is poised upon rockery about 
which more of the fruit grows, and a lion carved in the 
round there noses his knee. Clear amber of golden trans- 
lucency and rich ruby glints, in parts transparent, while 
areas of the base have an ebony-black surface with the 
light on them, yet prove of deep reddish translucence. Soft 


and brilliant polish. 
Height, 61% inches. 


First Afternoon 


29—Japvr Orcuip in Enamet Jarpintere (Chien-lung) 
The plant in mottled green jade brilliantly polished, the 
blossom in amethyst; at its root a lapis-lazuli rock. In a 
hexagonal jar of cloisonné enamel, with lotus decoration, 
set into a dripping basin also of cloisonné enamel, its orna- 
mentation a swastika lattice in the metal in a turquoise- 


blue ground. 
Height, 1134 inches. 


30—MInNIATURE POMEGRANATE TREE : 


In fruit and flower, formed of green jade and carnelian 
agate, and set into a dense green jade jardiniére with 4 
sceptre-head feet. ‘ 

Height, 734, inches. 


First Afternoon 


31—Dwarr Crrron Tree (Ch’ien-lung) 
The many-fingered or Buddha’s-hand citron, with leaves of 
fei-ts’ut jade and fruit in clear golden and light clouded 
amber, growing near a begonia in green jade and Chinese 
ruby, in a white jade jardiniere of foliated outline. 


Height, 9 inches. 


32—LAPIS-LAZULI ANIMAL GrRoUP 


Recumbent Fu-lion gripping in his mouth the fillets of the 
brocaded ball, which hes under his chin and over which a 
cub raises its head toward the parent. Carved of a solid 
block of richly colored lapis-lazuli with russet mottlings. 


Length, 51%, inches. 


338—WhHuitTE JADE DisH 


Low and shallow, shaped in the form of a phcenix; pure 
white jade, thin to the point of transparency except in the 
bird’s head, which is carved in the round and forms a 
handle. Low oval foot; soft unctuous polish. 


Long diameter, 614 inches. 


34—Wuitrr JADE ORNAMENT 
A thin, oval slab of jade, ornamented in the dragon motive, 
the monster’s head carved in low relief over conventional 
waves and the surfaces of the stone studded with bosses in 
representation of the body’s scales. Soft polish. 


Length, 7, inches. 


35—A@QUAMARINE VASE 


Slender ovoidal form, embraced within pine trees carved in 
high relief and undercut. Birds are perched amongst the 
foliage, and between the trees Shou-lao and attendant, a 
spotted stag, a stork and the sacred fungus appear, carved 


in relief. 
Height, 414 inches. 


First Afternoon 


36—SOAPSTONE STATUETTE 
Seated figure of a Lohan, holding a bracelet-rosary in relief 
over his raised left knee. His priestly robes are richly 
adorned with lotus medallions and scroll borders, incised 
with diapered grounds. Foliated base of soapstone, mottled 
in red, yellow and gray, and minutely incised. 


Height, 534 inches. 


37—SOAPSTONE STATUETTE , 
Kuan-yin seated, with left knee raised and supporting a 
scroll in her right hand, which is crossed over the con- 
cealed left. The goddess’s robes are incised with lotus em- 
broideries, retaining traces of gilding, and the scroll is 
similarly incised. The goddess wears a jeweled necklace 
and bracelet, and her hair is blackened. Yellowish-gray 


soapstone of waxen surface. 
Height, 53% inches. 


38—CrystTaL ORNAMENT 


Figure of a Lohan seated over a gourd, carved in brilliant 
crystal very slightly smoked, his eyes set in in red. From 
the gourd’s head its vine-branches, running into gray-white 
and yellow agate tones, rise clear of the Lohan and oyer- 
arch his head, supporting in their course five bats in relief. 


Height, 61, inches. 


39—CrystTaL VASE 


A large ovoid jar embraced within the branches and long 
curling leaves of a peach tree, with three boys climbing over 
the jar’s side, is carved in clear crystal, which just beyond 
the jar’s boundary runs into an opaque quartz of pale 
russet-yellow, which is carved with peaches and the Bud- 


dha’s-hand citron. 
Height, 3°, inches; length, 61% inches. 


First Afternoon 


40—CYLINDRICAL Box witTH CovER 


Brilliant black lacquer, inlaid on top of cover with mother- 
of-pearl in a decoration picturing two women, near a vase 
of flowers on a tall stand, the composition enriched with 
gilt details. Sides completely occupied with ideographic 
inscriptions, which retain traces of original gilding. 


41—F'Loss-cRYSTAL STATUETTE 


Standing figure of Kuan-yin with smiling countenance, car- 
rying a vase against her shoulder, in brilliant crystal flossed 
with feathery white patches and striations On a thala- 
mus of similar crystal with numerous iridescent areas. 


Height with base, 9% inches. 


42—F g1-Ts’u1 JADE ORNAMENT 


In form of a goose standing among blossoming lotus plants, 
one wing raised and its head turned high over its back, bill 
open. Body hollowed as a box or incense holder, the back 
lifting off as a cover, and the throat pierced for the passing 
of incense fumes. Wing plumage etched; the lotus plants 
carved in bold relief and undercutting. The jade softly 
mottled and brilliantly polished. Carved ivory stand. 


Height, 61, inches. 


First Afternoon 


43—JEWEL TREASURY 
An octagonal box with hinged cover, gilt, set with seventeen 
panels of rich fet-ts’ut jade, and jeweled with ruby-colored 
brilliants and seed pearls. Formal floral decoration on 
exterior of bottom and interior of cover. 


44—ORNATE JEWEL Box . 
Silver gilt, with hinged cover and spring catch. On cover 
and all sides an elaborate decoration of flower sprays, 
carved in relief and etched, in jade, tourmaline and other 


stones. Maker’s mark underneath. 
Length, 3 inches. 


45—OrNATE JEWEL Box 


Companion to the preceding. 


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First Afternoon 


46—ELABorate Sitver Girr JeEwet Box 


Having three compartments, each with separately hinged 
cover and its own spring catch. The covers of the semi- 
circular end compartments topped with fei-ts’ui jade and 
edged with small pearls, that of the quadrilateral centre 
compartment decorated with chrysanthemum sprays carved 
in relief in fei-ts’wt jade and colored crystal. Other flower 
sprays similarly carved adorn the sides, where also are 
found two fei-ts’ui jade panels. Maker’s mark underneath. 


Length, 3%, inches. 


47—ELABORATE SILVER GIrr JEWEL Box 


Companion to the preceding. 


CHINESE (MANDARIN) NECKLACE OR ROSARY 


“A long chain of one hundred and eight balls or beads. It is 
called the Chu-Chu, and it is intended to remind the wearer of the land 
of which he is a native. Of the one hundred and eight beads of which 
the chain consists, seventy-two are supposed to represent so many 
precious stones, minerals, and metals native to China; and the re- 
maining thirty-six represent as many constellations or planets which 
shed their benign rays on the country. To the left side of this chain 
are attached two very short strings of smaller beads, supposed to 
impress upon the mind of the wearer the reverence he owes to his 
ancestors and the filial piety at all times due to his parents and guar- 
dians; to the right side of the chain is attached a short string of smaller 
beads to remind the wearer of the allegiance which he owes to the 
imperial throne of his country.’"—Generat TcHenc-Ki-Tone: The 
Chinese Empire. 


First Afternoon 


48—ManpDARIN NECKLACE OF CoRAL AND JADE 


One hundred and eight beads of pink coral, of one-half inch 
diameter, are carved each with four Shou medallions in- 
cised on a relief ground; four one-inch globes of fet-ts’wt 
jade repeat the device in a perforate scroll ground. Three 
side pendants of grayish aquamarine beads with the same 
device, with drops of aquamarine, pink and yellow tourma- 
line, and a long pendant with tourmaline panel and jade 
drop, set off by silk braiding showing the swastika symbol. 
All the drops in gold filigree mounts inlaid with kingfishers’ 
feathers. 


Length of main strand, 62 inches; of side pendants, 9 inches each; 
of main pendant, 14 inches. 


(Illustrated ) 


49—Manparin NECKLACE OF YELLOW AND Pink TouRMALINE 


A rare production of unusual beauty. The necklace proper 
consists of one hundred and two beads, one-half inch in 
diameter, of brilliant yellow tourmaline, its color quality a 
sauterne tone with variants, and four large beads of pink 
tourmaline—the “‘Chinese ruby”, as it is sometimes called 
—with corded sections bound with seed pearls and minute 
coral beads. Pendant at the sides are three strings of ten 
pink tourmaline beads each, slightly smaller than the yellow 
beads, with fett-ts’ut jade drops mounted in filigree topped 
by pearls; in the long main pendant a pink tourmaline 
panel and drop are similarly mounted, with an additional 
inlay of kingfisher’s feathers. In octagonal carved wood 
box with incised inscriptions in green. 


Length of main strand, 59 inches; length of side pendants, 8%, 


inches each; drop of main pendant below the necklace proper, 
16 inches. 


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First Afternoon 


The seven articles here following, of pure gold, were 
possessions of the Ch’ing dynasty, and were purchased at the 
sale of the Manchu treasures held at Peking in the Spring 
of 1916. 


50—Emrperor’s Crown ORNAMENT 


A crown-shaped base with sceptre-head edge, adorned with 
dragons in network relief on a filigree diaper ground, sup- 
ports a standard of similar workmanship displaying more 
dragons, the whole set with eight pearls and topped by a 


crystalline mass of Chinese ruby. One of the ornaments 
of the Emperor’s crown. 


Height, 51, inches; diameter of base, 15% inches. 


First Afternoon 


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51—Enmpress’s Crown ORNAMENT 


A crown-shaped or dome-shaped base with sceptre-head 
edge, in eight panels of fine diaper scroll, adorned with the 
Buddhistic emblems of happy augury in delicate relief, 
supports a standard of gold and pearls sustaining two 
pheenixes one above the other, each of intricate workman- 
ship, with a finial of dark grayish mother-of-pearl. The 
tail feathers and crests of the birds are brilliant with small 
pearls, and larger pearls stud wings and breasts. Alto- 
gether there are twelve large pearls and forty small ones. 
One of the ornaments of the Empress’s crown. 


Height, 6 inches; diameter of base, 1% inches; length of birds, 
4 inches. 


First Afternoon 


52—EmpreEss’s Crown ORNAMENT 


The figure of a phoenix, hollow, of woven gold, squatting 
upon a cloud-bank repoussé, wings and tail in filigree and 
widely spread. On breast, back, wings and crest, five large 
pearls. On the five long tail feathers, nineteen small pearls. 
Twenty-four pearls altogether. One of a set of five orna- 
ments worn on the Empress’s crown, the other four follow- 


ing below. 
Height, 11/4, inches; length, 61% inches. 


(Illustrated) 


53—Empress’s Crown OrNAMENT 


Companion to the preceding and of same dimensions. 
(Illustrated) 


54—Empress’s Crown ORNAMENT 


Companion to the preceding and of same dimensions. 


(Illustrated) 


55—Empress’s Crown ORNAMENT 


Companion to the preceding and of same dimensions. 


(Illustrated) 


56—Enmpress’s Crown ORNAMENT 
Companion to the preceding and of same dimensions. 


(Illustrated) 


57—CHESTNUT-YELLOW JApE VASE wirH CovER 


The vase of flattened flask-shape with pedestal foot, in- 
curvate neck and two scroll handles; cover dome-shaped 
with hollowed knob finial. The vase rests on a stand of 
angular-scroll work, on which two pheenixes are perched, on 
different levels and opposite sides, each holding in its beak 
a fungus branch. Chestnut-yellow jade of grayish tinge, 
with veins of chestnut-brown; brilliant polish. 


Height, 91%, inches. 


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58—FerI-ts’ur JADE CENSER WITH ORIGINAL, COVER 


Cauldron-shape with narrow, flat shoulder and flanged lip, 
two bold dragon-head handles with scroll pendants, and 
three monster-heads in relief on the underbody from which 
pendent flutings loop around the basal ring, forming low 
feet. The sides are carved in low relief with the ogre 
lineaments and attendant features of ancient bronzes. The 
dome cover is similarly carved, on its shoulder are three 
goats, partly reclining, and the knob handle is carved with 
a coiling dragon. "The jade shows delicate and rich em- 
erald mottling with soft white, and is brightly polished. 


Height, 5°% inches; width across handles, 61% inches. 


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59—JapE STATUETTE 
Seated Buddha, with hands resting palm-upward one on 
the other, in front of him, in grayish-white jade brilliantly 
polished, on a beaded thalamus of green jade with the lotus 


petals carved in relief. 
Height, 914 inches. 


60—GreEN Jape Circuvar Disu (Ch’ien-lung) 


Shallow ovoidal form, on low foot. ‘Translucent grayish- 
green jade with dark and varied moss-green fleckings, 
carved in low relief with a blossoming tree which issues from 
among rocks underneath the foot of the dish and extends 
up the side and over the interior, where a bird of paradise 
is perched on one of the branches. Under the foot, Ch’ien- 


lung nien chth, in ancient characters. 
Diameter, 75% inches. 


61—Greren JAvE Circutar Disu (Chien-lung) 


Companion to the preceding, with a flying bird as well as 
one perched appearing in the interior. Same mark. 


62—Japr Circunar Disx 


Shallow, with low foot; translucent jade of a soft, vapor- 
ous-gray tone, with luminous polish and without decoration, 
the surface presenting a curious crinkle due to the texture 
of the stone. 

Diameter, 85% inches. 


63—Javr Circunar Disu 


Shallow, with ovoidal sides and spreading lip. Translucent 
gray-white jade, effectively clouded in a purer white, as 
with snows lying in the mountains; unadorned and brilliantly 
polished. 


Diameter, 914 inches. 


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64—Disu or Fruir (Ch’ien-lung) 
A shallow circular dish of grayish-white jadeite, all sur- 
faces carved in conventional lotus motive, the carving Ti- 
betan. On it a branch of pomegranates, the pomegranates 
green, yellow and brown agate, with the luscious meat inlaid 
in red glass, the leaves of green jade, and carnelian blos- 
soms. 


Height, 6 inches; diameter of dish, 7 inches. 


65—Javre Turnie (Ch’ien-lung) 
Leaves of translucent fet-ts’wi jade, amber blossoms, and 
root of dense opaque reddish-brown agate, in an ivory bowl 
of inverted bell-shape, carved in relief with fruits and flow- 
ers, birds and insects. 
Height, 12%, inches. 


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66— Miniature Garven (Ch’ien-lung) 


A clump of bamboo trees, their trunks of gray-green jade, 
their delicate leaves of fei-ts’ui jade; at their foot shrubs 
in green jade and pink tourmaline, and a lapis-lazuli rock. 
In circular white jade dish with flaring, foliated rim. 


Height, 914 inches. 


67—Dwarr Biwa TREE 


The biwa or loquat tree with its fruit and leaves in dense 
opaque yellow Ch’ien-lung glass and green jade, a lower 
branch of white jade blossoms and a shrub in green jade 
and pink tourmaline, in a porcelain ovoidal wall vase 
decorated with storks above the sea, bearing in their bills 


clusters of the peaches of longevity. 
Height, 161, inches. 


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68—A GarpvEN VEGETABLE ENNoBLED (Chien-lung) 
The turnip, with root in red and brown agate brightly 
polished, leaves in fei-ts’ut jade, and flowers in yellow 
clouded amber, set in a fei-ts’ui jade flaring bowl with bold 
foot, 
Height, 14 inches. 


69—Disu or Fruir (Chien-lung) 


Branches of a persimmon tree with large and small fruit 
in dense opaque brown jade of varying tone, leaves of 
green jade and agate blossoms, lying with bunches of 


amethyst grapes on a green jade circular plate with an 
engraved floral decoration. 


Height, 6 inches; diameter of plate, 9%, inches. 


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7O—Minitature Garpen (Ch’ien-lung) 


A plum tree in plenteous bloom, with petals of white jade 
and pink tourmaline, beneath it a coral chrysanthemum 
with green jade leaves, in a white jade jardiniére carved 
as a hollowed rock, with branches of the peaches of lon- 
gevity in bold relief about it. Traces of gilding on the 
jardiniere. 

Height, 161/, inches. 


71—Ctotsonneé Enamet Girt Watt Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


Pilgrim-bottle form with spreading foot and archaic dragon 
handles, the neck bulbous. Lotus ornamentation in soft 
colors within a rich lapis-lazuli-blue ground. Let into 
the centre a fei-ts’ut jade disc, carved and perforated, 
showing figures among lotuses. The vase holds an orchid 
plant in blossom, in green and white jade. 


Height of vase, 7 inches; height with flowers, 1414 inches. 


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72—Orpaaut Grass Jar (Ch’ien-lung) 
Ovoid with steep shoulder and short cylindrical neck, with 
lip sloping inward. Opaque glass of light and dark orange 
tones, and about the neck and shoulder marbleized. Sur- 


face of soft waxen lustre. 
Height, 6% inches. 


73—Pair JADE TABLE SCREENS 


Discs of translucent white jade, carved in relief with im- 
mortals and attendants in mountainous landscapes, in one 
Shou-lao appearing with his emblem the spotted stag. Re- 
verse of each carved with the wild plum tree in blossom. 
The discs rest in architectural stands built up of white and 
dense green jade, carved in openwork and relief with archaic | 
dragons and other characteristic motives. : 


Diameter of discs, 5 inches; height in stands, 814 inches. 


74—Wurtrre Jape Frower Bow. (Ch’ien-lung) 


Low, broad, and ovoidal, with two large loop handles of 
monster-head character, supporting loose rings. Exterior 
surface exquisitely carved all the way around with herons 
in a lotus pond, in delicate relief. Lustrous polish. Four 
bats in bold relief form the feet. Under the bottom the 
imperial Ch’ien-lung mark, incised. 


Diameter, 6%, inches; width across handles, 834 inches. 


75—LAPIS-LAZULI STATUETTE 
Seated Buddha with smiling expression, holding a vase on 
his interlaced hands; carved in mottled lapis-lazuli of rich 
color, his robes bordered with incised embroideries, gilded. 
On a thalamus of dark green jade. 


Height of figure, 5%, inches; height with stand, 71% inches. 


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76—Rock Crystau TEAPOT 


Ovoidal with full and flattened shoulder, in-setting disc 
cover with loop handle which connects by a chain of loose 
links to the main handle, and phenix-head spout. The 
entire exterior carved in bold relief and undercutting with 
birds in blossoming peony trees, and the phenix’s plumage 


engraved. | 
Height, 4°, inches; length, 8%, inches. 


77—SoapsTonE Figure Group 


The goddess of mercy in gray and yellowish soapstone, 
holding in her hands a seated boy who carries a lotus spray. 
The hair of both figures is blackened, and the robes of the 
goddess are incised with embroideries. She stands on a 
rock base of chicken’s-blood soapstone, carved in openwork 
as rockery. 

Height with base, 1414 inches. 


78—Rock Crystat VasE witrH Cover 
Enlarged flask shape with spreading foot and two animal- 
istic and loose-ring handles. On either face four archaic 
phoenixes carved in high relief; incised fret borders on lip 
and foot. Dome cover also with fret border, surmounted 
by a pheenix and peony. 
Height, 11% inches. 


79—CLoIsONNE Enamet Gitr Watt Case (Ch’ien-lung) 
Pilgrim-bottle form, with spreading foot, bulbous neck, 
and two archaic dragon handles. Peony ornamentation 
in soft colors on a light turquoise-blue ground. At the 
centre a quatrefoil medallion in relief, in champlevé enamel, 
enclosing a filigree quatrefoil set with colored stones. The 
vase holds a blossoming begonia and hydrangea, and the 
ground bamboo, in jade, turquoise and other stones. 


Height of vase, 7 inches; height with flowers, 13 inches. 


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80—Rock Crystat Vase witH CovER 
A flattened quadrilateral vase, with animal-head and loose- 
ring handles, rests upon the back of a feng-huang standing 
or squatting on a scrolled base, its tail feathers curling up 
and forming a subsidiary vase or compartment at one end 
of and below the larger vase. The bird’s plumage is carved 
in relief and engraved, in front of its throat is a pendent 
loose ring, and on the sides of the vase are bamboo and 


other sprays. Dome cover, plain. 
Height, 111% inches. 


S1—MiniaturE Garven (Chten-lung) 

Orchids blossoming in white jade and rich-hued amethyst, 
with leaves of richly mottled green jade brilliantly polished, 
in oviform cloisonné jar adorned with floral scrolls and 
borders on a turquoise ground, interrupted by foliate 
medallions bearing Fu-lions and dragon-horses on a deep 
purple-lapis ground. 

Height, 1414 inches. 

(Illustrated) 


S2—MiIniaTuRE GarDEN IN CLotsonné Jar (Ch’ien-lung) 
Companion to the preceding, the flowers being Chinese lilies 
in white and green jade. 

Height, 154, inches. 


(Illustrated) 


83—Miniatrure Garven (Ch’ien-lung) 


The natten tree, with leaves of gray-green jade and berries, 
or seeds, of pink coral, and under it a lily and shrubs in 
green jade, amethyst, agate and tourmaline, in a soap- 
stone jardiniére carved as the overturned stump of an aged 
plum tree, a branch still blossoming and another supporting 


a recumbent figure. 
Height, 20%, inches. 


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84—MiniaturE Garven (Ch’ien-lung) 

The crow melon vine in fruit, overrunning a dead tree, the 
vine leaves of green jade, with wire tendrils wound with 
yellow silk, the fruit in carnelian agate. At the foot of 
the tree an amethyst rock, and near it a tiger lily with green 
jade leaves, an open flower in opalescent agate, and buds 
in carnelian and amethyst. In white jade dish with butter- 
fly-loop handles, carved in relief with dragons. 


Height, 16 inches. 


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85—Miniature Garven (Ch’ien-lung) 


The wild plum tree in blossom, the ground bamboo, a rose 
bush in bloom, and the polyporus lucidus, all treated con- 
ventionally, executed in white jade, mother-of-pearl, coral 
and pink tourmaline, with gilt and silken leaves, in a quatre- 
foil jardiniére of Peking enamel on sceptre-head feet. The 
jardiniére decorated in polychrome with bats, symbols and 
conventional lotus designs, on a gray-lilac ground. A com- 
panion piece to the succeeding number, the two together, 
the plum and the pine, making up the New Year salutation, 
used by both the Chinese and Japanese, which the Japanese 
call the Shochikubai—a wish for long life and happiness, 


extended at the beginning of the year. 
Height, 16 inches. 


86—Miniature Garpen (Ch’ien-lung) 
Companion to the preceding, with the pine tree the prin- 
cipal motive, completing with the plum tree of the preceding 
number the New Year greeting with its wish of happiness 
and long life. 


87—A Trer Japonica 1x Biossom (Ch’ien-lung) 
The keika or katsura, with lanceolate leaves of green jade, 
lightly veined, and minute blossoms in light yellow amber; 
at its foot begonias in green jade and pink tourmaline, 
about a rock of turquoise matrix. The whole in a foliate 
jardiniére of cinnabar lacquer, on six ju-t feet, richly carved 
with garden scenes and figures, in panels on a deeply in- 


cised ground. 
Height, 20 inches. 


88—Prunus Tree 1x Lacever Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 


The winter blooming wild plum tree, its blossoms in white 
jade, with chrysanthemum and begonia below it in green 
jade, tourmaline and amber, in a tall quadrilateral vase of 
cinnabar lacquer carved with landscapes and figures of 


unmortals. 
Height, 23 inches. 


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S9—A MiIniaTuRE GARDEN oF Popptirs 


Leaves of translucent green jade, flowers in clear golden 
and clouded light yellow amber, tourmaline, amethyst, car- 
nelian, turquoise and lapis-lazuli. Cloisonné enamel jar- 
diniére, with conventional lotus decoration in soft colors 


on a light turquoise-blue ground, 
Height, 171 inches. 


90—A Miniature GARDEN or Popptrs 


Companion to the preceding. 


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91—-PoMEGRANATE 'T‘REE IN BLossom 


Slender leaves in green jade, the many blossoms in carne- 
han; under the tree, statuette of a lady, carved in rich 
pink coral. In champlevé enamel jardiniére, oblong with 
incurvate corners, with lotus decoration. Inlaid in each 
side of the jardiniére a panel of white jade, three of the 
panels decorated and one filled with an inscription, all 


incised and gilded. 
Height, 19 inches. 


92—_-PoMEGRANATE TREE IN BuLossom 


Companion to the preceding, with statuette of boy in coral. 


93—Prounvus TREE 1n Buossom (Chien-lung) 
The winter blooming wild plum tree with a plenitude of 
blossoms in white jade, in a circular green jade dish orna- 
mented with four medallions, the medallions having a gilded 
ground and bearing each an ideographic character in low 
relief, the four expressing wishes of a million years of good 


fortune. 
Height, 171, inches. 


94—Btossominc Tree 1n Lacquer Vast (Ch’ien-lung) 
A gnarled peach tree with blossoms in yellow tourmaline, 
and under it a begonia and chrysanthemum in green jade, 
coral, pink tourmaline and turquoise, in a tall cinnabar 
lacquer vase carved in relief with figures of immortals in 


landscapes. 
Height, 22 inches. 


95—JapvE Frorat Ornament (Ch’ien-lung) 


Kaya-kusa in green and white jade, pink tourmaline, car- 
nelian and lapis-lazuli, in an elongated, flattened vase of 
white jade, displaying formal carvings in low relief and 
two animal-head and ring handles in bold relief. 


Height, 13 inches. 


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96—OrNAMENTAL Grape Arspor (Ch’ien-lung) 


Erected from a gilt and enamel hexafoil jardiniére ‘The 
vine in full fruit, its bunches of green grapes formed of 
aquamarine and fei-ts’ui jade, the leaves of green jade with 
their veins finely incised: On each foil of the jardiniere a 
raised panel bearing a conventional representation of para- 
dise, with bats among clouds above waves, and symbols and 
jewels, in cloisonné enamel, surrounded by floral scrolls in 
champlevé enamel; on lip and foot incised key-fret and lotus 
borders. 


Height, 24 inches. 
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97—OrNAMENTAL Grape ArBor (Ch’ien-lung) 


Companion to the preceding, with purple grapes instead 
of green, the grapes being of amethyst. 


98—ImupertaL CutnesE Lorus Ponp (Ch’ien-lung) 
The “‘pond” a gilt jardiniére, oviform, with incised and 
repoussé scroll decoration, on which are implanted con- 
ventional lotus flowers in colored stones; the top of the jar 
or “water surface” a mirror. Rising through the mirror 
on tall stems are lotus leaves and blossoms in green and 
white jade, carnelian and tourmaline, and resting on the 
mirror are carnelian gold fish and a white soapstone heron. 


Height, 21 inches; diameter, 16 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


99—ImperiaAL Cuinese Lorus Ponp (Ch’ien-lung) 


Companion to the preceding. 
(Illustrated) 


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100—Crrron Tree in Pexinc Enamet Vase (Ch’ien-lung) 
A tree of the Buddha’s-hand citron in fruit, the leaves of 
green jade, the fruit of clear golden amber, clouded yellow 
amber and brown amber. Beside it a peony, with varied 
flowers. The vase decorated in the hawthorn pattern, the 
blossoms in pink, white and green on a “cracking ice” 


ground of rich, glowing blue. 
Height, 31 inches. 


101—Citron Tree in Pexine Enamet Vase (Chien-lung) 


Companion to the preceding. 


102—Gourp Arzor (Ch’ten-lung ) 
A gourd vine, its spreading leaves in light and dark mottled 
green jade, each delicately carved and veined, rises from 
beside a yellow soapstone rock up which a lizard crawls, and 
drooping about the sides of the arbor exhibits blossoms of 
white jade and yellow amber, and double-gourds in the 
same materials and also in carnelian, lapis-lazuli, turquoise, 
fet-ts’ut jade, agate, tourmaline and rock crystal. In 
cloisonné enamel jardiniére with a conventional lotus scroll 
decoration in polychrome on a turquoise-blue ground, the 
jardiniére quadrilateral with chamfered corners, each face 
bearing a gilt panel with relief ornamentation; raised on 


four angular feet. 
Height, 22 inches. 


103—Gourp Argor (Ch’ien-lung) 
Companion to the preceding. 


104—Prony GarpeENn IN IvperiAL JarpintereE (Ch’ien-lung) 

Leaves of dark green jade, variously carved and incised, 
and luxuriant blossoms in mottled green jade and white 
jade and yellow soft jade, in amethyst, tourmaline and 
lapis-lazuli, and in carnelian and opalescent agate. At 
base of trees an amethyst rock, and one of turquoise with 
Fu dogs climbing about it; broken coral ground. Jardi- 
miére in brilliant light canary-yellow, spangled with scores 
of butterflies in polychrome enamels. 


Height, 3 feet 9 inches; diameter of jardiniére, 211% inches. 


(Illustrated) 


No. 104A—PEONY GARDEN IN IMPERIAL JARDINIERE 


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105—Btossomine CAMELLIA IN CLoIsonNNE ENAMEL JAR 
Leaves of polished dark green jade, buds and blossoms in 
white jade and carnelian. The containing jar quadri- 
lateral, and resting on an architectural base with sceptre- 
head feet; its decoration flowers and conventional borders 
in soft colors on a turquoise ground of greenish trend. 


Height, 26 inches. 


106—Butossominc CAMELLIA IN CLOISONNE ENAMEL JAR 
Companion to the preceding. 


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107—Taoist Mountain GARDEN witH FLOWERS AND FIGURES 


Rock shelves and cliffs of a mountain region, in carved 
wood, rise from a sea represented in the carved stand, and 
lesser rocks of white jade, lapis-lazuli and turquoise matrix 
appear on the shelves. Shou-lao with his staff and em- 
blematic peach, and a lady and two boys, all in white jade, 
stand among them, and the god of longevity’s emblematic 
stag looks down from.a tall crag. About are blossoming 
orchids, chrysanthemums and various shrubs, a resplendent 
peony tree and snowy white plum tree, begonias and the 
sacred fungus, the pine and the bamboo, executed in white 
and green jade, fei-ts’ut jade, amethyst, tourmaline, lapis- 


lazuli and carnelian. Height (with stand), 2 feet 31, inches. 


108—Taoist Mounrarin GarpDEN witH FLOWERS AND FIGURES 


Companion to the preceding, with more formidable moun- 
tains, and an equally brilliant floral display. Here Shou- 
lao is mounted on a stag, another figure appears in pink 
coral, and a fisherman in white jade. High aloft is a 
pavilion, and near by a bird on a plum branch. 

Height, 2 feet 5 inches. 


109—Awn Inpoor CHrysanrHEMUM GarbEN (Ch’ten-lung) 
Leaves of light and dark green jade attach to numerous 
stems, and blooms appear in white and yellow jade and a 
green jade flecked with black, in turquoise and lapis-lazuli 
and carnelian, tourmaline and glass. Ground, a gravel of 
broken coral stems. In a deep jardiniere of Peking enamel, 
modeled in large quatrefoil shape with a flaring and folli- 
ated rim. The principal decorations of the jardiniére are 
four panels of landscapes and figures, which illustrate both 
in composition and style the mutual influence and inter- 
action of Chinese and European painting, noticeable in 
China during the Ch’ien-lung period. Under the bottom 
the imperial seal mark. On its own original gilt stand with 
a varied ornamentation, including openwork scrolls and a 
cloisonné enamel band of large and small sceptre-head out- 
lines, displaying floral designs in polychrome on a deep 


lapis-blue ground. 
Height, 2 feet 9 inches; diameter, 1714 inches. 


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FISH BOWLS AND AQUARIUMS 


110—Buve Grass Fish Bown (Ming) 
Ovoid, with flat foot recessed underneath, and correspond- 
ing umbo in the interior, narrow flattened shoulder and 
broad molded lip. Transparent glass of sapphire and 
mazarin-blue notes with the light on it, and a clear azure 
translucence against the light. 


Height, 8 inches; diameter, 111%, inches. 


(Illustrated) 


111—Green Grass Fish Bowni (Ch’ien-lung) 
Transparent glass of bluish-emerald tone; ovoid, with ab- 
breviated neck and wide mouth. Projecting from within, 
a jade lotus clump, with leaves, bud, and open flower show- 
ing seed-pod, one leaf perforated by borings of insects. 


Diameter, 11 inches; height, 18°, inches. 


112—Guass Aauartum on LacauER STAND 

Colorless glass, of compressed globular form, with a facetted 
band about the centre. Within and rising above the rim 
a lotus clump with leaves of pale green and fei-ts’ui jade, 
lightly veined by incision, and flowers of rich carnelian 
brightly polished. The stand, in red and gold carved 
lacquer, is of the Ch’ien-lung period, and represents a Fu- 
lion upholding a lotus; originally a temple offering stand. 

Diameter of bowl, 131%, inches; height with stand, 4 feet. 


118—G ass Aquarium on Tart Laceuer STAND 

Colorless glass in compressed globular form, decorated 
with a facetted band; within, branches of red and white 
tree coral. On a temple offering stand of the Ch’ien-lung 
period (the base modern), in form of a Fu-lion supporting 
a standard surmounted by a lotus flower. The standard 
is carved in relief and openwork with the dragon-and-cloud 
and floral motives; the whole in gold and red lacquer. 


Diameter of bowl, 1414 inches; height with stand, 5 feet. 


114—Guass Aquarium on Tati Lacever STAND 


Companion to the preceding; the stand the same, Ch’ien- 
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115—Guass Aquarium on Lacaurer StTanp 

Compressed globular form; 
colorless glass, with a deco- 
rative band of broad facets 
about the centre. Within, 
branches of white and red 
tree coral. The stand in 
gold and red lacquer is in 
form of a Fu-lion support- 
ing a columnar standard 
which is encircled by floral 
openwork carving, and up- 
holds a large lotus blossom 
platform. It is of the 
Ch’ien-lung period; its orig- 
inal use was as an offering 
stand in the temple. 


Diameter of bowl, 14 inches; height 
with stand, 3 feet 3%, inches. 


116—Granpvp Aquarium 
A representation of the fab- 
ulous Dragon Palace under 
the Sea. At the back a pic- 
torial panel of the Ch’ien- 
lung period, with a poem by 
the Emperor at the upper 
left. On the panel a pine 
tree with pendent vine 
streamers, bamboo trees, a 
biwa branch, and a pome- 
granate tree in fruit, also 
four storks in different pos- 
tures, carved in relief in 
green and white jade, ame- 
thyst and wood and inlaid 
above a sea of glass waves. 
Within the aquarium rocks 
of natural stone colored, 


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and of veritable turquoise and seed-pearl and white jade, 
with white jade bridges, pagodas and other buildings,” a 
pavilion of lapis-lazuli and another of yellow jade, trees of 
red and white coral, and figures and animals of white jade 
and fei-ts’ui jade, turquoise and aventurine, besides various 
white jade boats with boatmen. 


Height, 82 inches; length and width (approximative), 55 inches and 
18 inches. 


LACQUER BIRDCAGES 


117—Brown Laaquer Brirpcace (Ch’ien-lung) 
Dome-shape with flattened top and carved ivory lantern 
and feet. Flowers, fruits and butterflies in soapstone and 
tinted ivories. Carved ivory worm tongs, utensils and vari- 
ous embellishments. Fei-ts’ut and white jade chain sus- 
pended from bronze dragon bracket on tall teakwood and 
brown lacquer standard. 


Diameter of cage, 141/, inches; height of standard, 6 feet 4 inches. 


(Illustrated ) 


118—Brackx LaceueEr Birpcace (Ch’ien-lung) 


Dome-shape with flattened top, and carved ivory lantern 
and feet. Around bottom plum, magnolia, peach and 
chrysanthemum blossoms in soapstone and tinted ivory 
appliqué. Two cloisonné enamel cups. Carved ivory worm 
tongs and other utensils, and numerous ivory embellish- 
ments carved in gourd and melon motives. Suspended by 
fet-ts’ut and white jade chain from tall teakwood and brown 
lacquer standard with bronze dragon-head bracket showing 
greenish patina. 


Diameter of cage, 14 inches; height of standard, 6 feet 4 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


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119—Ivory Birocace (Chten-lung) 


Dome-shape, the top de- 
pressed; jade lantern and 
feet ; brown lacquer ribs and 
bottom. Bottom incised in 
a brocade pattern, inter- 
rupted by appliqué decora- 
tions of the pomegranate, 
peach and citron in colored 
stones. Ivory worm tongs 
with jade handles studded 
with jewels; agate, jade and 
cloisonné enamel cups. Jade 
centre post, jeweled, and 
various utensils and embel- 
lishments in carved and 
tinted ivory, the motive the 
Chinese lily. Long chain of 
fet-ts’ut and white jade and 
amethyst, suspended from a 
cloisonné enamel dragon 
bracket capping an oaken 
staz set into a carved teak- 
wood circular stand. 

Diameter of cage, 131% inches; 

height of standard, 8 feet. 


120—Buack Laceuer Birpcacr 
(Ch’ten-lung ) 

Dome-shape with metal lan- 
tern; carved ivory feet. 
Ivory ornaments chiefly in 
the plum motive, with birds. 
Cloisonné enamel and fei- 
ts’ut jade cups. Around 
bottom, in soapstone, ivory 
and buffalo horn, citron, 
pomegranate, apple, pump- No. 119 
kin, peach, loquat and mel- 
ons, a bird, flowers and rocks. Elaborately carved black 
lacquer stand, penciled in gold, with dragon-head bracket, 
and chain of fei-ts’ui and white jade, turquoise and ame- 
thyst. 


Diameter of cage, 14 inches; height of standard, 7% feet 5 inches. 


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121—Burack Laceuer Birpcace (Chien-lung) 

Dome-shape, with lantern in cloisonné enamel; carved ivory 
feet. Centre perch and five cups in cloisonné enamel, worm 
tongs and other utensils and numerous ornaments of carved 
ivory, the decorative motive principally the plum blossom. 
Around the bottom, groups of immortals, with pine trees, 
flowers, birds and animals, in carved ivory delicately tinted. 
Elaborately carved black lacquer stand, penciled in gold, 
with dragon-head bracket, with chain of fet-ts’wi and white 
jade, amethyst and turquoise. 


Diameter of cage, 14 inches; height of standard, 7 feet 5 inches. 


122—Brack Lacauer Birpcace (Ch’ien-lung) 


Dome-shape with flattened top; metal lantern. Blue and 
white and champlevé enamel cups; carved ivory utensils 
and embellishments principally in the Buddha’s-hand citron 
motive; carved ivory feet. Peach, pomegranate, citron, 
chrysanthemum and peony branches around bottom, with 
dragonfly, bird and butterfly among them, in soapstone and 
tinted ivories appliqué. Tall teakwood standard with 
dragon bracket in cloisonné enamel. 


Diameter of cage, 1314, inches; height of standard, 8 feet. 


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123—Terakwoop JewEL Box (Ch’ien-lung) 

Oblong, with scrolled corners, and delicately carved with 
fret moldings. Collapsible dragon handles, a bat door 
catch, and four low feet, all of gilt. On all four sides an 
applied decoration of large chrysanthemum sprays in green 
and white jade. Interior divided by a shelf; at top and 


bottom shallow drawers. 


Height, 101, inches; length, 1514 inches; width, 714 itches. 


124—Traxwoop JEwEL Box (Ch’ten-lung) 


Companion to the preceding. 


125—Treakwoop anp Ivory JEweEL Box (Ch’ien-lung) 
Oblong, on four wheels resting on an elaborate table; the 
box in two sections, access being gained by lifting off 
successively the cover and the upper section. Floral decora- 
tions, appliqué, in green and white jade and pinkish quartz. 
On top, a chest of two drawers in the guise of bundles of 
books, surmounted by what appears to be a pyramidal 
bundle of scrolls and separates into three boxes of cylindri- 
cal pattern. Also on top, a green jade cylindrical vase 
holding flowers of jade, amber, lapis-lazuli, agate and 


tourmaline. 
Total height, 27 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


126—Trakwoop anv Ivory JEwEL Box (Ch’ien-lung) 


Companion to the preceding, with similar embellishments. 


No. 125—TEAKWOOD AND IVORY JEWEL BOX 


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127—ELaporaTE JEWEL CABINET 

Carved teakwood and ivory, with bamboo details, and varied 
enhancements. The cabinet rests on a large and intricately 
carved stand, and has double doors and two exterior and 
two interior drawers, besides the general inner compart- 
ment. Around exterior a bold decoration of landscapes, 
figures, and household ornaments, in tinted ivories, jade 
and other materials, appliqué. On top a deep oblong box 
adorned with jade gourds, a box in the form of a musical 
instrument, and a white jade plum tree in a green jade 
vase. 

Total height, 3 feet 2 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


128—ELABorRATE TEAKWOOD AND Ivory JEWEL CABINET 


Companion to the preceding and similarly embellished, with 
different top ornaments. 


129—Terakwoop JEWELRY Casinet (Ch’ien-lung) 

Rectangular, on a spreading base, with receding, stepped 
sections above. Double doors to the main compartment, 
above and below which are drawers. Front, top and sides 
elaborately carved in relief and by incision with imperial 
dragons among waves of the sea. The back, and also the 
interior of the back, carved with objects of household 
adornment in low relief. 


Height, 2 feet; length, 164%, inches; width, 10% inches. 


130—Trakwoop Jewetry Castner (Ch’ien-lung) 


Companion to the preceding. 


No. 127—ELABORATE JEWEL CABINET 


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1381—Granp Ivory STATUETTE | 


Tall standing figure of a great lady richly costumed, elab- 
orately carved and finely engraved. By delicate incision 
her coat is patterned throughout in a swastika grill, and 
her skirt in a floral diaper, while on her cowl or head cover- 
ing are cloud scrolls. Flowers in relief deck her hair and 
Oriental ornaments carved and pierced hang about her. { 
She carries a long sword and is in the act of drawing it. 


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Height of figure, 181, inches; with base, 1934 inches; the whole 
on stand, 22°, inches. 


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DECORATED AND SINGLE-COLOR PORCELAINS 


1382—Buve ann Wuire Borrie-sHarep Vase (K’ang-hst) 
Fine hard white paste, with a glaze of notable brilliancy 
and a striking decoration of chrysanthemum scroll in rich 
sapphire-blue of two tones. On the neck two differing 
borders. 
Height, 51% inches. 


133—Perar-sHapPed Borrie (Chien-lung) 
With short neck and flaring lip, and low foot. Covered 
with a finely crackled glaze of mirror brilliancy, in that 
color-variant of the turquoise glazes that has been denomi- 


nated peacock-blue. 
Height, 5% inches. 


134—Sorr Paste Decoratep Vase (Yung Chéng) 
Slender inverted pear-shape with truncate neck and lightly 
molded lip; thin, light and delicate, the so-called “soft 
paste” porcelain. Brilliant glaze of rich, creamy tone, 
finely crackled, over a decoration lightly etched in the paste, 
consisting of three scroll medallions, a key-fret at the foot, 


and three pairs of encircling rings. 
Height, 54% inches. 


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135—APPLE-GREEN Borrie-sHapep Vase (K’ang-hsi) - 


Body ovoidal; graceful neck slightly expanding toward the 
mouth. Dense hard paste, the exterior glazed in a fine and ; 
soft apple-green which on the underbody shows a delicate | 
iridescent lustre, and throughout has a reticulate crackle : 
in self-color and café-au-lait, which is further traversed 
by rambling lines of a broader crackle. Within neck and 
underneath foot a rice-color glaze, crackled, and around 7 
the foot a brownish iridescent wash-glaze. 

The remark may be permitted that true apple-greens have become 


such a rarity that the appearance of one is almost an event in the 
pursuits of the searchers in China. 


Height, 5% inches. 


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136—Pracusitoom Ampuora (K’ang-hst) 
Very slender with narrow, flat foot, delicate neck and 
lightly spreading lip. Softly brilliant glaze of the pure and 
rich peach-bloom pink, with small patches and spottings of 
deeper tone, and the slight green fleckings that are so 
greatly prized, the latter beg found the more conspicu- 
ously under and inside the lip. Underneath foot the six 
characters of the reign in deep blue under a pure white 
glaze. A part of the neck has been restored, the greatest 
depth of the restoration being one-half inch. Carved stand 


of green-tinted ivory. 
Height, 5%, inches. 


1387—C.airR-DE-LUNE CouPe (K’ang-hsi) 
Fine white porcelain coated on both surfaces with a bril- 
hiant clair-de-lune glaze of delicate bluish-lilac tone and 
mirror properties. Ovoidal in shape, with shoulder round- 
ing into a shallow depression surrounding the small mouth, 
with short, molded lip, and having a fine unglazed foot. 
~Under-foot recess in pure white, with the six characters 


of the reign in rich underglaze blue. 
Diameter, 414 inches. 


188—Ricn Turqvoise-BLUE Borrie (Ch’éng Hua) 


Slender elongated pear-shape, the neck defined by a light 

~~.) molding, lips slightly spreading; bold foot. Dense, resonant 
Ming porcelain, with a sweeping and vigorous decoration 

of two flying phoenixes among the clouds, modeled in low 
relief and etched, in the paste; the whole covered with a 
‘.mottled turquoise-blue glaze of fine quality, brilliant, and 
minutely truité. Beneath the foot the six. characters of 
~Ch’éng -Hua.in a dseu Ming} blue tle a’ glaze of soft 


_cream-white. 
Height, 834 inches. 


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139—PracuBLtoom Water Jar (K’ang-hst) 


Writer’s water receptacle in semiglobular form, with small 
mouth. Fine hard paste, the surface lightly etched with 

three conventional medallions, and glazed in the richest 

tones of the peachbloom family, the delicate greens in 

this example covering the greater area and exhibiting in 

spots a rich azure lustre. Under the white-glazed foot the 
six-character mark in brilliant blue. Supplied with metal 

lip. Elaborately carved and pierced ivory stand, green 

tinted. 


Diameter, 5 inches. — 


140—Corat-rED VasE (Ch-ien-lung) 


Enlarged pear-shape, tapering to a short neck that ex- 
pands in a trumpet lip; deep, flaring foot. Rich coral-red 
glaze of even quality, and subdued mirror properties, with 
a soft lustre whose vague depths enhance the golden and 
purple tones of a quiet metallic iridescence. Interior of 
mouth and neck white. 


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Height, 85% inches. 


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141—T atu Sanc-pE-BeuF Vase (K’ang-hst) 


Heavy porcelain, shaped in a long, cylindrical form though 
with a slightly ovoidal contour, with narrow shoulder and 
short neck which shows a slight molded enlargement shortly 
above the shoulder. Rich and very brilliant crackled glaze 
in the varying deep and lighter fluid tones of the sang-de- 
beuf, and the darker clottings and changed tones of the 
coagulating blood. In the misfortunes of time the rich 
specimen has suffered damage that has sometime led to 
grinding down at foot and neck and supplying the lip with a 


copper rim. 
Height, 111% inches. 


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142—Bronze STATUETTE (Ming) 
Standing figure of a Lohan, on a hexagonal base. He is 
in flowing robes bordered with incised embroideries, his arms 
folded under them, and holds a ju-i sceptre against his left 
arm. His powerful head is turned to his left. Patina of 
golden-bronze tone, greenish-brown, and black. 


Height, 8% inches. 


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FUCHIEN STATUETTES 


143—Fucuien StratTuette (Ming) 


The goddess of mercy seated, her robes spreading about 
her, both hands concealed but one knee raised and its bare 
foot projecting. She wears a tiara and cowl and a neck- 


lace of beads. Brilliant cream glaze. 
Height, 71% inches. 


144—FucuHien STatuette (Ming) 
The goddess of wisdom seated, her hair dressed low, a neck- 
lace in relief across her nude breast, her ample robes flowing 
loosely and spreading about her feet. Her left arm drops 
upon an arm-rest and in her hand she holds a scroll; her 
right hand rests upon her raised knee. Rich cream glaze, 
with a crackled café-au-lait area back of the neck. 


Height, 744, inches. 


145—Fucuien Stratuette (Ming) 
Kuan-yin with tiara and cowl, seated, with hands concealed 
under her robes. Cream-white glaze of soft lustre and even 
quality. 
Height, 77% inches. 


146—Fucuien StTatTuette (Ming) 


The goddess of mercy in loose flowing robes, seated, right 
knee raised and the hand resting on it holding a rosary; her 
left foot, bare, projects from the folds of the robe. She 
wears a chrysanthemum crown, high headdress and cowl. 
Rich cream-white glaze of soft and brilliant lustre. 


Height, 84 inches. 


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147—FucHIEN STATUETTE (Ming) 
Kuan-yin standing on a rock base, her hair dressed high 
over her head, without cowl, the loose ends of her girdle 
swinging clear of her sides as they sweep downward. Her 
arms cross in front of her, and in one hand she holds a 
scroll while the other supports a corner of her robe. At 
her feet a fish and spray of leaves in a bowl. Brilliant 


cream glaze. 
Height, 9 inches. 


148—Fucuien STatTuette (Ming) 
Tall standing figure of Kuan-yin, with the sacred boss and 
hair dressed low, without cowl, her loosely flowing robes 
blowing in the breeze, riding the waves on the back of a 
crustacean. In her left hand she holds a ju-i sceptre. . Rich, 
soft and brilliant cream-white glaze of even quality. 


Height, 1034 inches. 
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149—FucHiEN SraTuEttTe (Ming) 
Kuan-yin seated on a rock throne, right knee raised and 
bare foot protruding from her robes, both hands resting 
on the raised knee and in one a scroll. Back of her a 
bundle of books. Brilliant creamy glaze. — 
Height, 12 inches. 
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150—Fucuien Sratrvuetre (Ming) 

The “'Thousand-armed Kuan-yin,” seated, on a lotus flower, 
the lotus mounted and revolving upon a teakwood stand 
carved in wave motive. Actually the goddess has nine pairs 
of arms, twelve of the hands holding symbols and the others 
in significant attitudes. She wears a crown and jeweled 
headdress, and other jewels. Brilliant glaze of rich cream- 
white. 

Height (with stand), 125% inches. 


(Illustrated) 


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151—ImreriaL YELLOW Jar (K’ang-hsi) 


Ovoid with short neck and large mouth with lightly .molded 
lip, and broad foot. A light ridge line circles the mid-body. 
Luminous glaze in imperial yellow of pale canary note, 
on exterior; interior white. Under foot the mark of the 
reign in blue. (Slight chips in lip restored to place.) 


Height, 854 inches. 


152—Imreri1at YELLow Jar (K’ang-hst) 
Ovoid with short neck and large mouth, and broad foot. 
Circled by a light ridge about the mid-body. Exterior 
coated with a brilliant imperial yellow glaze of pale canary 
tone, with metallic lustre; interior white. Under foot the 
six characters of the reign in brilliant sapphire. 


Height, 8% inches. 


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158—Tinec-yao VasE (Sung) 


Enlarged, flattened pear-shape, with oval neck, mouth and 
foot. Two vertical tubular handles on neck. Low relief 
decoration of the rock peony in luxuriant blossom, birds 
and butterflies, with key-fret borders at neck and foot. 
Cream glaze of unctuous brilliancy, with crackle in self- 
color and café-au-lait. 


Height, 131% inches. 


154—Tinc-yao VasE (Sung) 
Companion to the preceding (No. 153), with restoration 


at top of one handle. 
Height, 1314 inches. 


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155—Tatt Crackitep Borrie-rorm VasE (Ming) 
Elongated pear-shape, with neck expanding to a flattened 
lip; large, deep foot. On the shoulder two elephant-head 
and ring handles in relief. Cream glaze with fish-roe crackle 
in delicate café-au-lait lines, which is cut by the long lines 
of a larger crackle. Known as Ming Crackled Ware. 


Height, 15% inches. 
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156—T ati CrackLEep BoTrie-Frorm Vase (Ming) 


Bulbous pear-shape with full, truncate neck slightly ex- 
panding at the flat lip; bold foot. Rich cream-toned glaze 
of unctuous lustre, with a fine café-au-lait crackle, and a 
coarse crackle in black lines. Neck incised and modeled 
with a primitive decoration of indeterminate form. Known 
as Ming Crackled Ware. (Slight restoration at one point 
of lip.) 

Height, 1434 inches. 

(Illustrated) 


157—Tatit Cracktep Jar (Ming) 

Inverted pear-shape with high shoulder and short neck, 
flanged at the root, and large mouth; beveled foot. Rich 
yellow-cream glaze of dull lustre, extending to the interior 
where much of it is a cream-white. Café-au-lait crackle 
of small spaces, and a broader crackle in darker lines. 
Known as Ming Crackled Ware. 

Height, 1414, inches. 


(Illustrated) 


No. 156 


VASES AND JAR OF THE MING PERIOD 


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158—Mrrror-Biack CiuB-sHAPED VasE (K’ang-hst) 


Oviform body, the neck ending in a short spreading lip. 
Dense, heavy, resonant porcelain, invested with a mirror 
glaze of rich black, revealing the imprint and lustred traces 
of its original elaborate decoration in gold. 


Height, 171% inches. 


159—Mirror-Biack Cius-sHAPeD VasE (K’ang-hsi) 


Oviform body with perfect foot, the neck ending with a 
short spreading lip. Rich black monochrome glaze of the 


most brilliant, smooth mirror surface. 
Height, 17% inches. 


160—Mrrror-stack Cius-sHaPep Vase (K’ang-hst) 


Cylindrical with flattened shoulder, the body slightly draw- 
ing in to the well-defined foot; flange lip. Brilhant mono- 
chrome glaze of rich black, with mirror surface. 


Height, 175% inches. 


161—Mrrror-Biack Cius-sHAaPeD Vase (K’ang-hsi) 
Cylindrical body slightly drawing it at foot; flange lip. 
Mirror-black glaze of misty lustre, with delicate peau- 
d’orange surface, bearing the faint imprint of landscape 
and boating scenes, with inscriptions, of an early decora- 


tion in gold. 
Height, 1814 inches. 


162—Mrrror-BLack BEAKER-SHAPED VAsE (K’ang-hst) 
Sonorous porcelain, clothed in a smooth and glowingly 
briliant glaze of rich mirror-black, with detectible im- 
prints of its early golden decoration, an elaborate one 


including forceful figures. 
Height, 1814 inches. 


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163—Pair ImperiaAL Peacu Priatres (Yung Chéng) 


Delicate, musical, semi-eggshell porcelain, glazed in the 
pure, rich white of the Yung Chéng reign, decorated in 
the characteristic rose and greens,—with darker colors for 
the branches and pink and white for the blossoms,—with 
peach trees in fruit and flower, and coral bats flying above 
them. The decoration extends over both surfaces of the 
plate, and includes, on each plate, eight peaches and five 
bats. Under the bottom the six-character mark of Yung 
Chéng in blue within a blue double square. 


Diameter, 814 inches. 


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164—Pair Imrertat Jars with Covers (Ch’ten-lung) 


Remarkable specimens, perfect in every respect; flawless. 
Imperial Palace pieces. Ovoid in shape, with short neck 
gracefully curved and lightly molded lip. Mandarin-cap 
shaped covers, insetting, with conical button finials, Glazed 
throughout in the fairest turquoise-blue, of soft brilliancy, 
the blue interrupted under foot by a white square bearing 
the imperial seal in vermilion. Brilliant mille-fleurs deco- 
ration in famille-rose enamels and gold, the flowers dis- 
posed in sprays and detached buds and blossoms, and 
including daffodils, heliotrope and hydrangeas, morning- 
glories and orchids, the cock’s-comb and hibiscus, pear 
blossoms, poppies, dragon-lilies, the peony, lotus and 
chrysanthemum, japonicas and daisies, peach and cherry 
blossoms, carnations, begonias, magnolia and the Chinese 


plum. 
Height with cover, 16 inches. 


(Illustrated) 


165—Cerapon GarnirureE Decoratep 1x Conor (K’ang-hst) 


Consisting of three pieces, commemorating the celebrated 
eight horses of the Chou emperor Mu Wang, among pine 
trees. The ground glaze is a very brilliant pale grayish 
seagreen, interrupted by the horses, trees and rocks modeled 
in light relief and painted in a fine quality of blue of vari- 
able tone, white, and varying peach-reds. 


(a) Oviform temple jar, with six of the horses, the 
other two horses undoubtedly decorating the cover, which 
1s missing. 

Height, 101% inches. 


(b) Tall beaker, with five of the horses on the lower 
section and three above. Mark, a blue leaf. 


Height, 1714 inches. 


(c) Tall beaker, companion to the preceding and 


with the same mark. 
Height, 1714, inches. 


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166—InwreriaL Fish Bown (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoidal or semi-egg-shape, the rounded end downward, so 
that it will rest only in a stand, the mouth slightly extended. 
by a deep flange lip. Hard paste of musical tone, glazed 
in white on the interior of the bowl. The exterior is glazed 
in a rich yellow of deep canary tone, which shows areas of 
a fish-roe crackle. The yellow glaze is interrupted by four 
large medallions reserved in white, bearing in red on a 
golden swastika lattice the four characters restricted in 
application to the Emperor alone, expressive of the loyal 
wish that he live forever. Further decoration in enamels, 
coral and gold, of bats, peaches, the swastika and the 


endless-knot. 
Diameter, 8% inches; height, 734 tmches. 


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BRONZES AND CLOISONNE ENAMELS 


167—Bronze ANIMAL STATUETTE (Sung) 

A stag exhibiting some remarkable modeling, harnessed 
and accoutred to bear a burden, probably an immortal, 
possibly in the nature of vase or sacrificial vessel, holds 
in its mouth a branch of the polyporus lucidus and turns 
its body in graceful curve till its raised head faces back- 
ward. Its tasseled trappings, in relief, are engraved with 
scrolls and floral medallions, and it retains extensive vestiges 
of a rich gilding. Warm brown patina verging upon black, 
with patches of green. Carved teakwood stand. 


Height, 21%, inches; with stand, 241/, inches. 


168—CLoIsonNNE ENAMEL JARDINERE (Ch’ien-lung) 
Inverted bell-shape, of hexagonal outline. Conventional 
lotus decoration with ju-i border, in soft and brilliant colors 
on a light turquoise-blue ground. Architectural stand of 
Peking enamel, painted in bright colors with floral motives 


and an archaic phenix scroll. 
Height, 91% inches. 


169—Ctotsonné ENAMEL JARDINERE (Ch’ien-lung) 


Companion to the preceding. 


170—Larcer Bronze Sacririciat VEsseL (Han) 


Ovoidal with a low and broad flat foot which has a border 
of circular ribs underneath. Broad, flaring, concave lip, 
with an exterior molding. A low relief band encircles the 
mid-body, cut by an incised ring within either edge and 
ridged at its centre, and supporting two primitive orna- 
mental handles in relief. Rich, dense patina in varying 
tones of green and brown on all surfaces, with grayish 
earthy incrustations. 

Height, 75% inches; diameter, 1714, inches. 


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PLANT JARS 


171—Lapis-BLUE Puant Jar (Ming) 

Slightly ovoidal, broad of mouth and foot, with relief 
hoops effected by incision about top and base, each studded 
with large bosses. Two oranmental lion-head and ring 
handles in bold relief. Exterior glazed in a rich and bril- 
liant lapis-lazuli blue, interior in a grayish turquoise-green, 
both truité; at the bottom of the interior the glaze thickens 
in a “pond” of emerald-green with bolder crackle. 


Height, 634, inches; diameter, 11 inches. 


172—Tvreuiose-BLuE Fish Bowt (Ming) 
Shallow ovoidal form modeled in pointed foliations, with 
a short skirt which also is foliated and five monster-head 
monster-head feet. Pottery. Luminous glaze of mottled 
turquoise-blue finely crackled. 


Height, 454 inches; diameter, 1514, inches; height with stand, 11 inches. 


173—TvrevolsE-BLuE Fish Bowt (Ming) 


Shallow ovoidal form modeled in pointed foliations, with 
a short skirt which also is foliated and five monster-head 
feet. Pottery. Mottled turquoise-blue glaze of dull lustre, 
minutely crackled. 


Height, 47% inches; diameter, 16 inches; height with stand, 111% inches. 


174—CeLapon Trirop JAarpDIniERE (Ming) 


Ovoid with narrow sloping shoulder, short cylindrical neck 
and wide mouth, with flanged lip; large stump feet. On 
the body a luxuriant leaf and flower scroll in relief; on 
the neck an incised primitive decoration. The shoulder is 
studded with twelve small rosettes in low relief. On ex- 
terior and interior a brilliant celadon glaze, of pure sea- 
green lightening to grayish tones, boldly crackled in self- 


color and café-au-lait. 
Height, 8%, inches; diameter, 141%, inches. 


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175—Cerapvon Fiso Bown (Ming) 


Shallow ovoidal form with round, lightly molded lip and 
large, low foot. Stone-weight porcelain of prolonged 
sonority. The entire exterior covered with a luxuriant 
floral decoration modeled by incision in the paste, the in- 
terior with further floral adornment and a bold wave border, 
similarly executed. Rich and brilliant sea-green glaze. Has 
teakwood stand of unique form. 


Height, 5 inches; diameter, 18 inches. 


176—Patr CEeLapon JaARDINIERES (Ch’ten-lung ) 


In broad, ample, squat or compressed beaker-form, with 
bold foot and flattened, foliated lip. Heavy, stone-weight 
porcelain of sonorous tone. The bulbous main section 
decorated with lotus medallions centered by Shou characters, 
embraced within interlocked and detached foliations, the 
neck with a conventional plantain leaf border and the base 
with a leaf-and-tongue border, all in low relief. Scrolling 
foliations border the top of the rim. Brilliant glaze of 
rare and delicate sea-green. Bottom pierced with one-inch 
orifice. Red lacquer table-stands, engraved with lotus and 
landscape decoration colored a soft and delicate yellow. 
Height, 11144 inches; diameter, 1714 inches; height with stand, 
311, inches. 


177—F amitiE-rosE FisH Basin (Yung Chéng) 


Shallow and broad, with flat, projecting rim and broad, 
deep foot, the sides ovoidal. The enamel decoration at 
the bottom of the interior pictures a lotus pond in blossom, 
with king-fishers and butterflies on the wing; at the base 
of the sides are lotus flowers floating on waves of the sea, 
with swallows flying above the tossing spray. The surface 
of the rim is bordered with a continuous key-fret. On the 
exterior are storks flying among cloud scrolls, and a repeti- 
tion of the sea-wave motive, with two relief bands of woven- 
bamboo pattern. Imperial seal under the bottom. 


Height, 434 inches; diameter, 16 inches. 


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178—Larcr Cetapon PiaavE (Ming) 


Sonorous stone-weight porcelain of musical, gong tone, in 
spreading ovoidal shape with flaring rim and broad, bold 
foot. The inner sides of the cavetto are lightly fluted, and 
the whole, with the exception of a broad ring under the 
foot, is clothed in a brilliant monochrome glaze of pure 


grayish sea-green, of even quality. 
Diameter, 18 inches. 


179—FrLamBrt JarDINIERE (Ch’ien-lung) 


Deep, ovoidal, with large mouth and round lip. Resonant, 
stone-weight porcelain; the exterior covered with a mirror 
glaze of the transmutation furnace, in tones of rich purple, 
blue and gray, the underbody showing a reticulate crackle. 
The soft grayish glaze, with the crackle, covers the entire 
interior. Slight crack; barely perceptible, at lip. ‘Carved 
teakwood stand. 


Height, 13 inches; diameter, 1814 inches; height with stand, 25% 
inches. 


180—Fami.ier-rose Fish Bown (Yung Chéng) 


Ovoid, with rounded lip about a wide mouth. Brilliant 
white glaze with a sporadic crackle in brown lines, adorned 
with butterflies and detached sprays of hydrangeas, japoni- 
cas, roses, peonies, chrysanthemums and other flowers. 


Height, 9°4 inches; diameter, 1514 inches. 


181—Lacre Fiso Jar (Chia Ching) 


Ovoid with short neck and large mouth, with molded lip. 
Luminous glaze of soft white, decorated with swimming 
fishes in divers attitudes, among aquatic plants and sinuous 
water-grasses, with detached blossoms and florets floating 
on the surface. The decoration is in pale coral and dark 
vermilion, yellow green, and rich sapphire-blue. Leaf bor- 
der in blue at the base, paneled border in the main colors on 
shoulder. Under foot: Ta Ming Chia Ching nien chih. 
Has tall table-stand of carved teakwood. 


Height, 1314, inches; diameter, 161, inches; height with stand, 364, 
inches. 


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182—Pair Imperiat Buur anp Waite JarpiniErEs (Ch’ien-lung) 


Ovoid. Decorated in rich sapphire-blue of two tones with 
five of the imperial five-clawed dragons among cloud and 
flame scrolls, about the body; on the shoulder a border of 
sceptre-heads reserved in white in a blue ground, under a 
border of sea waves similarly reserved, which is repeated 
around the base. Imperial seal mark in blue. 


Height, 1634 inches; diameter, 24 inches. 


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183—BuivurE ann WuHuiTE JarRDINIERE (K’ang-hst) 


Deep ovoid form with heavy, rounded lip, below which is a 
low, encircling molding. Stone-weight porcelain responding 
in a rich gong tone when struck. Limpid white glaze, 
decorated in four large panels with landscapes and figures, 
boats, and song birds among magnolia trees, in rich tones 
of brilliant sapphire-blue and white reserve. Three borders. 
Skeleton table stand of teakwood. 


Height, 14 inches; diameter, 1434 inches; height in stand, 35 inches. 


184—Buvur anp WHITE JARDINIERE (Chia Ching) 


Very slightly ovoidal and flaring, with heavily molded and 
flattened lip. Decorated in the rich Mussulman blue with 
boldly painted four-clawed dragons, aquatic plants and 
floral sprays. On the lip: Ta Ming Chia Ching nien chth. 


Six-legged teakwood stand carved as bamboo trunks. 


Height, 12 inches; diameter, 24 inches; height with stand, 34 inches. 


185—Buve anp Wuire JarpIniERE (Chia Ching) 
Flaring and ovoidal with heavily molded flattened lip. Deco- 
ration in deep Mohammedan blue of two imperial dragons 
in pursuit of the flaming jewel of power among cloud scrolls. 
On lip: Ta Ming Chia Ching nien chih. 'Teakwood stand 
with legs carved as bamboo stalks in bunches of four. 


Height, 131%, inches; diameter, 301, inches; height with stand, 
381/, inches. 


186—ImrrriaL BuuE anp WuireE JARDINIERE (Ch’ten-lung) 


Slightly ovoidal contour, broadly flaring and deep, with 
broad flat lip and a half-round molding below it. Painted 
in two tones of a soft rich blue on a brilliant greenish- 
white, with imperial dragons emerging from the sea and 
pursuing the jewel of omnipotence among the clouds, and 
the flame scrolls of their fiiery breath. On the lip a sceptre- 


head border. 
Height, 171, inches; diameter, 27 inches. 


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187—LarcEe TuRQvUOISE-BLUE JARDINIERE (Ming) 


Deep ovoidal form with mammoth lip. Decoration, four 
animal-mask medallions in relief. Light turquoise-blue 
crackled glaze, mottled and of subdued lustre and unctuous 
quality, occasionally thickening in dark blue patches. The 
same glaze continues on the interior. Has six-legged carved 
teakwood stand. 


Height, 21 inches; diameter, 31 inches; height with stand, 42% 
inches. 


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188—Decoratrep JarpinterE (Ming) 
Ovoid with a squat bell-shaped foot, flat, flanged lip, and 


molded rings encircling body near base. Exterior in a 
brilliant emerald-green, mottled, with foliated medallions 
of peony, chrysanthemum, camellia and lotus flowers 
modeled in relief and glazed in a light yellow. Around 
base and foot are formal borders similarly modeled and 
glazed, and the lip is similarly treated. Has carved teak- 
wood table-stand, 


Height, 17 inches; diameter, 2914, inches; height with stand, 48 
inches. 


(Illustrated ) 


189—DecoraTED JARDINIERE (Ming) 


Oviform, straightening to cylindrical in a band below the 
round lip; incised rings encircling the underbody. The 
cylindrical band is in relief, with a sectional decoration in 
higher relief of galloping horses and flying birds, and on 
the body of the jar are four oval medallions depicting 
mandarin ducks and fishes among lotus flowers, in bold relief. 
Brillant glaze in mottled emerald-green covering the ex- 
terior of body and lip, while the relief decorations are 
glazed in yellow, brown and aubergine. MHeavily carved 
six-legged teakwood stand. 


Height, 211%, inches; diameter, 261/, inches; height with stand, 
45 inches. 


190—Lapis-BLUE JARDINIERE (Ming) 
Ovoid with a slight shoulder and round lip, and broad 


flat foot. Rich glaze of mirror brilliance in a deep lapis- 
lazuli blue with a delicate, minute crackle. Interior in a 
rich cream-yellow glaze boldly crackled. Carved teakwood 
table-stand. 


Height, 19 inches; diameter, 29 inches; height with stand, 46Y, 
inches. 


188—DECORATED JARDINIERE 


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191—Larce Decoratep Jar (Ming) 


Oviform with steep shoulder and short upright lip, with 

- . large mouth and relatively narrow foot. Brilliant glaze of 
soft creamy white with delicate crackle, decorated in a 
warm, rich and variable brown with bold floral designs in 
three bands separated by cursive scroll borders. Middle 
band interrupted by an inscription stating that the 
jar was made in the mid-summer of the twenty-seventh 
year of Wan Li (A. D. 1600), and giving the potter’s 
name. Five-legged teakwood stand. 


Height, 34 inches; diameter, 26 inches; height, with stand, 50 inches. 


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192—Tureauvotisrk JARDINIERE (Ming) 


Ovoid with thickened lip; decoration, a ring of large bosses 
under the lip and above the foot, and four medallions of 
animal masks in relief. Greenish turquoise crackled glaze 
mottled almost in a splash effect with thickened patches 
of dark grayish-blue. 


Height, 171/, inches; diameter, 28 inches; height with stand, 40 inches. 


193—ToravoisE JARDINIERE (Ming) 
Ovoid with deep lip; studded with bold bosses in an en- 
circling ring under the lip, and another ring near the base, 
and decorated with four monster-head medallions modeled 
in relief. Over all a greenish turquoise crackled glaze of 
moist brilliancy, mottled by a thickened flow in deep grayish- 
blue. Six-legged teakwood dragon-stand. 


Height, 181/, inches; diameter, 28 inches; height with stand, 391, 
inches. 


194—Larce JARDINIERE (Yuan) 


Deep ovoidal form with full round lip. Lower body en- 
circled by a band of incised rings. The body invested with 
a rich glaze of deepest egg-plant purple of naturalistic 
surface, and the lip and interior with a glaze of greenish 
turquoise-blue, finely crackled. Teakwood stand. 


Height, 27 inches; diameter, 32 inches; height with stand, 48 inches. 


SECOND AND LAST AFTERNOON’S SALE 


SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1917 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


BEGINNING AT 2.30 O'CLOCK 


Nos. 195 to 326, inclusive 


PANELS AND SCREENS 


195—Buackx Lacquer Hanerne Paner (Ming) 


Painted in soft, warm colors of low tone, details inlaid 
in mother-of-pearl, with distinguished figures emerging 
from palace buildings into a garden, with balconied ter- 
races and bridges over streams, and in the distance an 
equestrian facing a bridge. 


Height, 16 inches; width, 121%, inches. 


196—Buacx Lacever Haneiwe Payer (Ming) 


A landscape painting in soft and delicate coloring, pictur- 
ing a barge bearing a distinguished being approaching 
a building where figures are seen, and before which others, 
attended by deer and a stork, await his arrival at the land- 
ing place. In the distance, an equestrian amid another 
group of figures. On the reverse a seven-column inscrip- 
tion in brown lacquer and gold. 


Height, 175% inches; width, 15 inches. 


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197—Decorative Panet (Ch’ien-lung) 
On the obverse a retreat at the shore line among the moun- 
tains, with figures in a summer house, carved and laid with 
kingfishers’ feathers, and applied on a black velvet ground. 
Aloft a long inscription with seals, in carved ideographs 
inlaid with the kingfishers’ feathers. Reverse inlaid with 
floral sprays and grasses in soapstone. ‘Teakwood frame 


with carved ornamentation. 
Height, 181, inches; length, 23 inches. 


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198—DecoraTivE Paneu (Ch’ien-lung) 
Companion to the preceding (No. 197), with a different — 
landscape, and the inlays on the reverse lotus plants and 
grasses. Same dimensions. 


199—Parr Carvep Cinnapar Lacquer Taste Screens (Chien- 


lung) 
Oblong panels of cinnabar lacquer, set in frames of the 
same, the whole elaborately carved. Palace gardens in a 
mountain paradise are alive with immortal sages in happy 
mood, more than two score on one panel and nearly as 
many on the other, the carving in relief on incised fret 
grounds. On the reverse are luxuriant displays of peonies, 
etched. The frames are carved in relief with floral and 


angular scrolls. 
Height, 231/, inches; length at base, 231, inches. 


200—Pair Carvep Taste ScreENS witH Ivory Ficure Groups 
(Ch’ten-lung) 

Teakwood panels carved in high relief with trees and rocks, 
and etched with swirling waters, the landscape occupied on 
each screen with a group of nine sages boldly carved in 
ivory of mellow tone, their robes delicately tinted and 
etched. In one they are discussing the lotus philosophy, 
with admiration of the beauties of the flower. In the other 
they are rejoicing in the power which sages enjoy. On 
each panel long inscriptions, incised and gilded. 


Height, 24°34, inches; length at base, 2414, inches. 


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201—Parr Watt Picrurres 1x Carvep Ivorres (Ch’ien-lung) 


In one, literary ladies reading or at games, pause to look 
out from open houses upon a procession in which a female 
figure riding a sheep and bearing a ju-t sceptre is hailed and 
honored by numerous attendants. On a stairway and bridge 
leading to the houses other figures add their salutations, 
a pine tree and low-hanging clouds overhead. Buildings 
and figures in relief, tinted and decoratively painted; the 
buildings with much carved grill work. 

In the second picture young ladies with musical in- 
struments are on the lower floor of a building, on the second 
floor is a domestic scene, and in the garden below boys are 
at play. Carved teakwood frames. 


Height, 221, inches; length, 255% inches. 


202—Bracx Lacever Hanerse Panew (Ming) 


Painted in polychrome in soft vegetable colors with the 
design of a five-clawed dragon, facing full toward the 
spectator, his sprawling and sinuous body encompassing 
in its coils the flaming jewel. Flame and cloud scrolls 
and dancing waves appear about him, within a foliated 
medallion, and further cloud scrolls fill the spandrels be- 
yond the medallion, while the frame is painted with still 
more of the conventional cloud scrolls. 


Height, 30 inches; length, 381, inches. 


203—RecraneuLtar Brack Lacever Trunx (Ming) 


Painted in red, green and yellow lacquer with bamboo and 
blossoming peach trees, birds, butterflies and bees, and in- 
laid with peonies in soapstone and mother-of-pearl. Bronze 
fittings engraved with bats, clouds and Shou medallion. 


Height, 2314 inches; length, 3714 inches; width, 241/, inches. 


203as—LacevER Coated LEATHER Ostone Trunk (Ch’ien-lung) 


Embossed decoration gilded, on the front the hundred an- 
tiques and on the ends flowers and fruits. 


Height, 18 inches; length, 34 inches; width, 22 inches. 


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204—Curotsonn&t Enamet Watt Picture (Chten-lung) 
On a black lacquer ground of dull lustre, almost of matt 
surface, a fine architectural structure effected in bold relief 
rises out of rolling waves carved in a higher relief, the 
building executed in cloisonné enamel of varied colors with 
gilding. On the reverse, cloud-scrolls and flying storks 
bearing rods and fungus in the bills, in mother-of-pearl 
appliqué above a leaning pine tree at the sea’s edge. 
Height, 38 inches; width, 243, inches. 


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205—Ivory-PANELED TABLE SCREEN (Ch’ten-lung) 

Quadrangular screen frame and stand of teakwood, carved 
in relief with squirrels among the grapes, and immortals 
among pines with bats hovering near. The screen panel 
displays a sea and shore of carved teak, with ivory boats 
propelled by numerous oars, and ivory figures in divers — 
attitudes, as well as ivory palaces among the clouds show- 
ing intricately carved lattices and variously tinted. Bamboo 
trees are applied in metal. 


Height, 3314 inches; width, 311% inches; height of panel, 231, inches; 
Length, 2714 inches. 


206—InperiaL Patace TasBie Screen (Ch’ien-lung) 

An elaborate composite production. ‘The -screen proper 
is a wood panel painted in atmospheric effect, with the 
contour of a large ovoid vase, the vase form emphasized 
by a double frame, a broad teakwood frame with gourd 
vines in fruit and flower and swastika lattices inlaid in 
silver, and an inner frame of bronze in the same outline, its 
surface incised with a key fret. On the panel are figures 
of noble ladies, carved in soapstone, the embroideries of 
their robes engraved and gilded, one lady pushing a flower- 
decked treasure wagon. A polonia tree extends its branches 
over her head and a pheenix soars aloft, all in soapstone 
of varied color. On the black lacquer back bats penciled 
in gold carry symbols, fruit and flowers among the clouds. 
The screen is surmounted by relief carvings of bats among 
clouds, in tzakwood, and rests on a teakwood base carved 
in openwork with Fu-lions. 


Height, 4714, inches; width, 2114 inches. 


207—ImperiaL Patace TasBLe Screen (Ch’ien-lung) 
Companion to the preceding (No. 206), the soapstone 
decoration picturing ladies boating, and catching crabs. 
Same dimensions. 


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208—PatacE STANDING SCREEN (Ch’ien-lung) 

Teakwood, with floral carvings in relief and incised border 
grounds, framing a rectangular panel painted as a green 
and shimmering water-course under a blue sky, with bridges, 
surrounding landscape and numerous figures carved in 
tinted ivories and applied in bold relief. The landscape is 
mountainous and contains various buildings, and among the 
figures are noblemen watching fagot carriers, and in the 
foreground some fishermen. 


Height, 62 inches; width, 43 inches; height of picture, 41 inches; 
width, 35 inches. 


209—Patace Sranpine Screen (Ch’ien-lung) 

Companion to the preceding (No. 208), in the same 
workmanship, the panel here picturing in the foreground 
a noble accompanied by an attendant bearing gifts, ap- 
proaching over a bridge a palace at the left where friends 
wait to greet him, and in the middle distance a figure on 
a buffalo, followed by a man afoot carrying a section of a 
fence. Same dimensions. 


210—A Picrure in KivnertsHers’ Featruers (Ch’ien-lung) 


An oblong panel displaying on a black lacquer ground 
two branches of a pomegranate tree, extending into view 
from the right, with fruit and leaves in kingfishers’ feathers, 
and a bird in the same feathers, his plumage tinted, perched 
on the lower, swaying limb, with eyes on the bursting fruit. 
Four characters with two seals at upper left; two seals at 
lower right. Teakwood frame. 


Height, 347%, inches; width, 1914 inches. 


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211—Imperiat Patace TasiEe Screen (Ch’ien-lung) 


On a background of cinnabar lacquer incised in a lattice 
pattern, an artist at imperial command has composed a 
landscape commemorating the harvesting of the rice, in 
illustration of a poem written by the Emperor, which is 
imprinted in carved characters of white jade, appliqué. 
The landscape pictures various buildings and figures about 
a lake, with trees, rocks and mountains, done in ivory, green 
and white jade, lapis-lazuli, kingfishers’ feathers and other 
materials, in bold relief. Teakwood frame; back of black 
lacquer with flowers and bats penciled in gold lacquer. 
Treakwood stand, carved with lotus flowers and dragons. 


Height, 521/, inches; length, 56 inches; height of picture, 331/ inches, 
length, 4514, inches. 


212—InrperiaL Parace Taste Screen (Ch’ien-lung) 


Companion to the preceding (No. 211), in similar work- 
manship but the scene varied, the composition here illus- 
trating a poem by the Emperor on silk worm culture. Same 
dimensions. 


213—ImreriaL Patace Screen (Ch’ien-lung) 


Teakwood, in ten folds, with brass-bound feet; carved in 
relief on the obverse with animals, landscapes with figures, 
fruit and flower sprays and household ornaments, and on 
the reverse with dragon scrolls, ideographs and other 
formal devices. Within each fold a recessed panel, under 
glass, the several panels ornamented with built-up groups 
of various trees and plants, the trunks, branches and stems 
in gilt-metal, leaves in enameled silver, and blossoms in 
jade, amber, tourmaline, coral, aquamarine and amethyst, 
on a ground of ivory painted as gravel and supporting 
rockery of wood painted in representation of cloisonné 
enamel. On each is a poem by the Emperor, celebrating 
the plants. On the reverse of these panels are brilliant 
paintings in color on silk, by artists of the Ch’ien-lung 
period, picturing figures in spacious palace domains. From 
the Imperial Palace at Peking. 

Height, 6 feet; length, 12 feet. 


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TEAKWOOD FURNITURE 


214—Parr Garpven Seats (Ch’ien-lung) 
Teakwood, carved, and set with panels of cloisonné enamel 
displaying floral ornamentation in polychrome on turquoise- 


blue ground. 
Height, 19 inches. 


215—Two Traxwoop Tasues (Chien-lung) 
Square, in double section, with hollow-square base. Carved 
and pierced ornamentation in various forms, and each side 
inlaid with two dragons carved of mother-of-pearl; under 
the top, each side set with two mirror panels painted with 


bats and flowers. 
Height, 32%, inches; 13°, inches square. 


216—Two Treaxkwoop Tasers (Ch’ien-lung) 
Square, with corner legs resting on a hollow-square base, 
and an intermediate platform or shelf. The decoration, 
incised, and carved in relief and openwork, includes the 
thunder-scroll and conventional lotus-petal borders, foliate 
and beaded scrolls, monster-heads and the ju-t motive. 


Height, 34 inches; 15 inches square. 


217—Traxkwwoop SeuvuarE TABLE, OR STAND 
Tall and slender quadrangular legs with molded edges, rest- 
ing on a square, solid base. Relief carvings in teak and 
in boxwood applied, in the form of conventional scrolls, 
Shou medallions and bats. 


Height, 361, inches; top 151% inches square. 


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218—Backx Laceurer TABLE 


Oblong, with straight quadrilateral legs, reduced in di- 
mensions below a characteristic projecting scroll about a 
third of the way down, and resting on a hollow oblong base. 
Decorated in gold lacquer; on the top a foliated medallion 
enclosing a seaside landscape with summer houses, within a 
ground of swastika lattice, on the edges, skirt and legs 
floral and cloud scrolls and angular fret. 


Height, 34°34 inches; length, 17%, inches; width, 1234 inches. 


219—Buackx LacevER TABLE 


Companion to the preceding (No. 218), and of the same 
dimensions. 


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220—Traxwoop Taste (Ch’ien-lung ) 
Oblong; legs straight at the top and curved below, resting 
on an oblong open base beneath which are four low feet. 
At the edge of the top a plain molding, and at the corners 
metal finials with inner outline in ju-i form. Relief decora- 
tion of archaic dragon scrolls, floral scrolls and Shou 
characters, and at the corners animal masks. 


Height, 31 inches; length, 41 inches; width, 281/, inches. 


221—Trakwoop Tasie (Ch’ien-lung) 
Oblong, with a centre drawer in either side, and at either 
end a shelf below the top. Decoration, elaborately carved 
archaic dragon scrolls in relief, with pendants and tassels 
on lower legs; knee-brackets at the leg tops, and low bal- 
conies about the shelves, in openwork scrolls. Brass drawer 


handles, 
Height, 35 mches; length, 61 inches; width, 27 inches. 


222—'Trakwoop Taste (Ch’ien-lung) 


Companion to the preceding. 


223 


Parr Brack Lacever GARDEN SEATS 


With solid tops and bottoms, and four low sceptre-head 
feet, the open sides formed of carved quatrefoils bisected 
by vertical ribs. Penciled in gold with lotus and ju-i de- 
signs, bats, trellises and vermicular scrolls; floral design 


on the bottom enriched with red. 
Height, 20 inches. 


A COLLECTION OF PALACE FURNITURE, BE- 
ING CH’IEN-LUNG ORIGINALS, REDECORATED 
AT A TIME OF PALACE RENOVATION ABOUT A 
HALF CENTURY AGO, FOR THE USE OF THE 
IMPERIAL FAMILY, THE DECORATIONS REPRO- 
DUCING THOSE OF THE CH’IEN-LUNG TIME 


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224—Bruack LacevuER TABLE WITH DRAWER 


All four sides concaved, the swelling corners being then 
indented ; four slender carbriole legs resting on a fixed base, 
which in turn is supported on four low feet. Skirt carved 
in openwork, with sceptre-heads overhanging the leg tops. 
Decorated throughout in gold lacquer, the table surface 
picturing summer landscapes at the waterside, and the 
delicate pencilings elsewhere presenting brocade designs, 
bats and formal borders. 


Height, 34 inches; length, 191% inches; width, 17 inches. 


225—Buack Laceuver TABLE with DRAWER 


Companion to the preceding (No. 224), and of the same 
dimensions, 


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296—Two Bruacx LacevER ARMCHAIRS 


Quadrangular seat, legs and braces, and dragon-scroll 
brackets and aprons; skeleton back and arms, with solid 
splat. On the splat a lake among the mountains, with 
summer houses, and elsewhere conventional lotus and peony 
motives, with tendril streamers, and sundry scrolls, all 
delicately penciled in gold. 


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227—Two Briack LacqauErR ARMCHAIRS } 
Of the same form as the preceding (No. 226), and decorated 
in gold with the same motives but more extensively, the 
entire seat being covered with floral designs, the sceptre- 
head and bats. In the landscape on the splat two storks 
with rods in their bills fly downward over buildings washed 
by waves. 


228—Two Bruacxk LacauER ARMCHAIRS 


Oblong seat, on four straight round legs with four round 
braces, and three upper braces scrolled, in place of a skirt. 
Arms and back all carved round, in scrolls; broad, solid 
splat, pierced with a low arch at the seat. Decorated in 
gold, the splat and seat with landscapes showing wide 
water reaches, the splat decoration lying within a ground 
of floral lattice, and arms, legs and braces with a lotus 
scroll. 


229—Two Brack LaceuER ARMCHAIRS 


Companions to the preceding (No. 228), the landscape 
decoration only differing, and the ground of the splat, 
which in these chairs is a more open lattice, in floral mo- 
tive. 


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230—Two Bruack LacevEer ARMCHAIRS 


Of the same form as the preceding lots, Nos. 228 and 229, 
and decorated in gold and pink lacquer with a highly 
conventionalized lotus scroll and detached sprays; in addi- 
tion, on the seat a quatrefoil encloses a summer landscape 
in which a boatman appears, and on the splat are three 
medallions painted with landscapes. 


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231—Pair Buacx Lacever Sipe CHAIRS 


Quadrangular seats, legs and braces, with carved scroll 
skirt and back. Painted in gold on all surfaces with lotus 
sprays and scrolls, Shou medallions, and bats carrying 
symbols. 


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232—Two Brown Lacquer ARMCHAIRS 
Quadrangular seat, legs and braces; solid arms and back, 
with panels and heavy moldings. Painted in gold on all 
surfaces, in many variations of the lotus motive, with an 
intermingling of other floral designs, and bats, the ju-i 
and other emblems. 


233—Two Buack LacavErR CHarrs 
Of the same form as the preceding (No. 282), to which 
they are companions, the decoration, in gold, being in 
the same motives slightly varied. 


234—Buack LaceuEer Tale 
Long and narrow, with convex rail skirted with scrolls, and 
square straight legs. Gold decoration in lotus scrolls on 
legs and rail, and on the top in a landscape of summer 
houses among mountains and long stretches of water. 


Height, 33 inches; length, 49 inches; width, 16 inches. 


235—Buack LaceuEer TaBLe 
Long and narrow, with straight square legs, braced only 
at the narrow ends, the rails skirted with scrolls. On the 
top a rocky landscape with water, summer houses and 
bridges, in a pinkish-brown lacquer gilded, and on the sides 
and legs flower sprays and scrolls. 


Height, 33 inches; length, 49 inches; width, 15 inches. 


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236—Brown Lacauer TasLE 
Long and narrow, with quadrangular rails carved in angular 
scroll; straight square legs meeting the rails, and support- 
ing elaborate short columns on which the top rests. Deco- 
rated in gold, the top with mountains, pines, willows and 
the sea, and birds in flight, the legs and rails with bats, 
scrolls and sprays. 


Height, 331, inches; length, 52 inches; width, 161/, inches. 


(Illustrated) 


237—Brown Lacquer TABLE 
Oblong with straight square legs, and scrolled brackets. 
Top penciled in gold with a landscape of rolling waters, 
mountains and summer palaces, within a polyfoliate panel 
set in a trellised ground, the sides and legs with the lotus, 
bats and scrolls. 
Height, 33 inches; length, 40 inches; width, 20 inches. 


238—Emprvrror’s THRONE IN Buack LAaceuER AND GOLD 


A large quadrilateral seat, with solid back and arms, apron 
with scrolled edge and ju-i centre, and four short cabriole 
legs which rest on an oblong outline base supported on 
four low feet. The profuse decorations are in elaborate 
lotus blossom scrolls and other floral motives, birds and 
insects on the wing appearing in some places in connection 
with the flowers, and again birds perched on branches; on 
the seat a large foliated medallion encloses an involved 
ornamentation in which the emblematic bats are seen, and 
on arms and back are landscapes and sailing boats. 
Length, 491%, inches; width, (depth), 37 inches. 


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CHINESE EMBROIDERED TABLE COVERS AND 
IMPERIAL TEXTILES 


239—Pair Sirk BrocapE Arm Rests 
Globular cushions in seven sections with two circular poles; 
golden-yellow silk of greenish trend, with symbols and con- 
ventional patterns appearing in the cloth-of-gold ground. 


Diameter, 7%, inches. 


240—Patr Sirk Brocape Arm Rests 
Companions to the preceding, the silk being of a lght 
emerald hue, with soft and brilliant sheen. 


241—Pair Cuinese Sirk Vetver Hanernes (K’ang-hsi) 
The velvet a rich sapphire-blue of soft sheen, displaying 
in a cloth-of-gold ground of softened, brownish tone, a 
decoration of dragons emerging from waves, both in the 
main body of the hanging and in short lambrequin. Floral 
scroll border in the velvet, on the gold ground. 


Height, 30 inches; length, 38 inches. 


242—Cuinese SitK VeLveT Taste Cover (K’ang-hsi) 
Quadrilateral. Rich deep ruby toned velvet with a peony 
decoration of restrained abundance in dark emerald, within 
a central square enclosing a medallion, and in a broad 


border. 


Length, 34 inches; width, 32%, inches. 


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243—CHINESE Sitk VELVET TaBLe Cover (K’ang-hst) 
Oblong. Golden-pink velvet of soft and brilliant sheen, 
with a decoration of the “Hundred Antiques” and a floral 
border appearing in its cloth-of-gold ground. 


Length, 37 inches; width, 231, inches. 


244—CuHInEse Sink VeELver Taste Cover (K’ang-hsi) 
Rectangular. Centre of soft peach-pink with lustrous 
sheen, with a luxuriant lotus ornamentation in a delicate 
emerald-green. Border of lotus motive in the pink, on a 


rich, deep sapphire-blue ground. 


Length, 37°, inches; width, 33°, inches. 


245 CHINESE ImpertaL Brocape Taare Cover (Ch’ien-lung) 


Square. All around, a wave and rock border, in polychrome, 
enclosing a golden-yellow field in a low key, adorned with 
imperial dragons and flaming jewels among clouds, worked 
in gold, pink, blue, green and white. 


Length, 3 feet 21%, inches; width, 3 feet 2 inches. 


246—CuHInesE Siuk Vetver Taste Cover (K’ang-hsi) 
Golden-pink cut velvet with cloth-of-gold ground, the square 
field adorned with a peony medallion and corners, the body 
of the design appearing in gold, and the broad border pre- 
senting a luxuriant lotus scroll in the velvet, on the gold 


ground. 
Length, 3 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 10 inches. 


247—Cuinese Sirk Emproimpery Hanerne (Chien-lung) 
The peach tree of the geni in bearing, bats, ju-t sceptres 
and cloud scrolls, in blue, pink, white, green and gold on 
a golden-buff ground of soft bronze-like sheen. Borders 
of floral scroll in colored silks and angular scroll in gold 
braid. Sectional lambrequin in peony and lotus motives. 


Height, 34 inches; length, 5 feet 1 inch. 


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248—Cuinesrt Sink Empromrery Tasie Cover (Ch’ien-lung) 


Quadrilateral, with small half-squares out of the corners, 
for fitting down over the table top. Rich golden-buff 
ground, embroidered in soft and brilliant colors with butter- 
flies and sprays of varied flowers, within a square set off 
by a gold border; outside this, bats, clouds scrolls and 


sprays, 


Dimensions, 3 feet 6 inches square. 


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249—CurnesE Sirk Emsroiwery Taste Cover (Ch’ien-lung) 


Quadrilateral with rounded corners. On a rich yellow 
ground a swastika lattice worked in brilliant azure, and 
overlaid with bats, fruit and flower sprays and cloud scrolls, 
in varied colors, in a wide border, while in a field defined 
by gold braid at the centre the lattice, bats and cloud 
scrolls continue, the fruit and flowers giving way to nine 
imperial dragons executed in gold. 


Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 3 feet 2 inches. 


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250—Cuinese Sitk Tapestry Taste Cover (Ch’ien-lung) 
Square. Delicate buff ground with a soft, light sheen, woven 
in blue and silvery white, soft, faint greens and orange- 
browns and a light gray-brown, with an extensive and 
elaborate ornamentation. In the centre a large foliated 
medallion encloses a peach tree of the gen in fruit, with 
rocks and waves, and storks among clouds, this surrounded 
by a profusion of lotus foliations and conventional blossoms, 
encompassed by a narrow band of gold braid. Outside the 
gold boundary, a border of lotus and angular scroll. 


Dimensions, 3 feet 314, inches square. 


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251—CurneseE ImperiaL Brocape Taste Cover (Cl’ien-lung) 


Oblong, with an all-over pattern of closely overlying small 
cloud-scrolls in soft tones of green, pink, brown, blue and 
silvery-white, within a rolling-wave border in similar colors, 
interrupted by five five-clawed dragons in gold, the central 
one in possession of the omnipotent jewel. 


Length, 3 feet 91, inches; width, 2 feet 111% inches 


252—CHINESE IupEeRIAL BrocapEe Tasie Cover (Ch’ien-lung) 


Companion to the preceding (No. 251). — 
Length, 3 feet 914, inches; width, 3 feet 1 ineh. 


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No. 250—CHINESE SILK TAPESTRY TABLE COVER 


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253—CHINESE ImpEeriaAL BrocapE Tasie Cover (Clten-lung) 


Oval, exhibiting a time-softened wine-color lattice over a 
quiet green ground, interrupted by a profuse floral deco- 
ration in both colors with blue, lilac, dull yellows and soft 


pinks added. 


Greater diameter, 4 feet 8°4 inches; lesser, 3 feet 814, inches. 


254—Set or Four Cuinese Sirk Tapestry Haneines (Cien- 
lung) 
Worked with landscapes and figures in soft blues, greens 
and browns, on a brownish-red golden ground, with panels 
of bats among clouds above, and higher still long inscrip- 
tions penciled in gold on the deepest of blue. 


Each: Length, 3 feet 2 inches; width, 91/, inches. 


255—Ser or Four CurnesE SILK Tapestry Haneines (Cl’ien- 


lung) 
At the base, oblong panels of deep sapphire-blue ground 
adorned with branches of blossoms, birds and butterflies 
in delicate colors; above, lesser panels picturing symbols 
and household ornaments in similarly delicate tones on a 
bleu-de-ciel ground. 
Each: Length, 29%, inches; width, 914 inches. 


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256—Parr CHrInese Sirk Emproimpery Hanernes (Ciien-lung) 
Inscriptions in seven bold characters, embroidered in bril- 
hant blue on a ground of golden silk of brownish tone, 
with scattered flower sprays and butterflies lightly em- 
broidered in neutral tones along the sides. 


Length, 4 feet 314 inches; width, 121% inches. 


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257—CHINESE ImperiaAL BrocapE Tasite Cover (Ch-ien-lung) 
Nearly circular, patterned in a bold lattice design involving 
medallions surrounded by bats, foliated panels on diapered 
ground, squares formed of the archaic dragon-scroll, sprays 
and other ornamental motives, in light and dark blue, white 
and a warm reddish copper color on a soft olive ground. 


Diameters, 4 feet 9%4 inches and 4 feet 21% inches. 


258—CHINESE ImpeRiIaAL Sink Damask (Chten-lung)® 
A long roll or strip of glowingly brilliant rich golden yellow, 
patterned with thirty-six imperial dragons, each grasping 
for a flaming jewel, among cloud scrolls; edges selvaged; 
one end with an enclosed ravel fringe, and both ends bearing 
the maker’s name done in the weave. 


Length, 16 yards; width, 291%, inches. 


259—Pair CHINEsE SitK Vetiver Haneines (Kang-hst) 
Velvet of richest deep azure with a softly glowing sheen, 
disclosing an ornamentation in the cloth-of-gold ground 
which includes two four-clawed dragons, a lotus medallion, 
and two dogs Fu playing with the filleted ball, above rolling 
and leaping waves. Archaic dragon border in velvet on 


the metallic ground. 
Length, 5 feet 8 inches; width, 201% inches. 


No. 256—PAIR CHINESE SILK EMBROIDERY HANGINGS 


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260—CuinEsE Sirk Empromery Tasre Cover (Ch’ien-lung) 


Oblong. Silk of rich and deep canary-yellow, embroidered 
with peaches, bats and flowers in ruby-red, azure, pink, 
light blue and soft green, with yellow and white; at the 
centre a peach medallion within an oblong doubly outlined 
in gold. 

Length, 4 feet 314%, inches; width, 3 feet 1%, inches. 


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261—Parr Curnese Sink Vetver Haneines (K’ang-hsi) 


An oblong field of delicate red with brilliant sheen is deco- 
rated in pale emerald also having a soft sheen, the deco- 
ration a conventionalized lotus scroll with large blossoms, 
the central blossom being enclosed within a foliated me- 
dallion. Border of deep and glowing blue, with a conven- 
tional lotus scroll in the red. 


Length, 5 feet 3 inches; width, 2014, inches. 


262—CuInesE Sink VELVET Tasie Cover (K’ang-hst) 


Circular. In the centre a square showing an Imperial 
dragon and emblems in a matted foundation fabric from 
which the gold has all but vanished, within a rich cherry- 
red velvet ground. Around the square eight more of the 
dragons similarly executed. Border of dark blue brocade 


with dragon medallions and symbols. 
Diameter, 4 feet 1 inch. 


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263—CHINESE Sik Tapestry Haneines (Ch’ien-lung) 


Scenes in the Taoist paradise, with Shou-lao and other 
immortals, cranes the messengers of the gods, pines, the 
peach tree of the genii, pavilions and cloud scrolls, in 
soft blues, greens, browns and whites on brownish-golden 
ground, within a general ground of neutral red and yellow- 


brown notes. 
Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet 8 inches. 


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264—CHINESE SILK Emsroipery Tasie Cover (Chien-lung) 

Oblong with round corners; yellow silk ground. A field 
following the contour of the mat is set off by a braid of 
gold and embroidered in glistening silks of soft and bright 
hues with formal corners of archaic dragon-scroll and 
an ornate medallion of lotus flowers and foliations, embrac- 
ing an inner medallion of interlacing sceptre-heads in gold. 
Border of lotus and dragons in corresponding colors. 


Length, 4 feet 91%, inches; width, 3 feet 1% inch, 


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265—CuinesE ImperiaL BrocapE Taste Cover (Ch%ien-lung) 


Quadrilateral with broadly rounded corners. Lotus deco- 
ration in flower and foliar scroll, in soft brownish-red, pale 
green and deep blue, on a rich azure ground with soft 
sheen, : 

Length, 4 feet; width, 3 feet 8 inches. 


266—CHINESE Sirk Emsrorery Taste Cover (Chen-lung) 
Rectilinear. Rich canary-yellow ground, embroidered in 
brilliant colors with a conventional lotus scroll, peach 
clusters and flying bats, in a broad border set off from a 
central panel by a band of gold braid. In the central panel 
nine imperial dragons in gold, amid cloud scrolls and swas- 
tika symbols in silk. : 

Length, 4 feet; width, 3 feet 9 inches. 


267—CHINESE SILK Emsroipery Tasite Cover (Chen-lung) 


Square with rounded corners. Rich canary-yellow silk’ 
with a profuse ornamentation of conventionalized lotus 
flowers, Buddhistic emblems of happy augury and numerous 
bats, embroidered in brilliant silks of many colors, the 
ornamentation divided by a band of gold braid into a central 
square and broad border. 


Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 3 feet 4 inches. 


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268—Pair Cuinesr Sirk VeLver Haneines (K’ang-hst) 
Warm cherry-brown velvet with a delicate pale-ruby sheen; 
cloth-of-gold ground. Lotus border in velvet on the gold. 
Within the oblong field, two four-clawed dragons with 
flaming pearls and cloud-scrolls, and sea waves, shown in 
the gold ground. Length, 6 feet; width, 22%, inches. 


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269—CuineEsE ImprriaL BrocapeE Haneine (K’ang-hst) 
On a golden-bronze ground of olive note, imperial golden 
dragons accented in white, green and brown, the whirling 
jewel and waves, cloud and flame scrolls in the same colors 


with red, purple and blue added. 


Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet 21% inches. 


270—CuHInEsE ImperiaL Brocape Hancine (Ch’ien-lung) 
On a soft green ground a decoration of ‘“*The two hundred 
boys of long life,” in low toned colors, the faces in white. 
The boys appear in favored gardens, terraced and balconied, 
amongst pine and peach trees, bats, storks and spotted 
stags, all emblematic of longevity. Six borders at top and 


seven at bottom. 
Length, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 4 inches. 


271—Cuinesre Imperiat Brocape Hanerne (K’ang-hst) 


Rich golden-brown silk of soft sheen, with seven dragon 
medallions in red, green, white, blue and gold, the color 
scheme simplified in the centre medallion. 


Length, 6 feet 101%, inches; width, 4 feet. 


272—CuIneEsE SiLK VeLveT Haneine (K’ang-hsi) 
An oblong strip of rich golden-pink velvet with delicate 
sheen, disclosing in a cloth-of-gold ground a conventional 
floral decoration of rich luxuriance, partly embraced within 
three medallions worked in the velvet. Border design of 
foliar scroll in the velvet, on cloth-of-gold ground. 


Length, 7 feet 4 inches; width, 2334 inches. 


273—CHINESE SiLK VELVET Haneine (K’ang-hst) 
Rich orange and brilliant golden yellow with soft sheen, 
the design of bats and imperial dragons among clouds 
appearing in the ribbed silk ground. 


Length, 6 feet 11 inches; width, 2 feet. 


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274—Manparin’s Coat 1n Sirk Emsroiery (Ch’ien-lung) 
Lightly embroidered with an octagonal lattice on a plum- 
colored ground above a deep border of turbulent waves of 
affluent color, and displaying five-clawed dragons heavily 
embroidered in gold, besides numerous floral embroideries 
in varied colors. 


(Illustrated) 


275—CHINESE SILK Tapestry Hancine (Ch ien-lung) 
Scenes in the Taoist paradise,—the immortals seated or 
standing under trees, boys making peach offerings to the 
god of longevity, figures borne upon dead trees over the 
waves, the apotheosis of an empress,—in soft neutral colors 
light in key, on a ground of warm apricot-brown. 


Length, 5 feet 8 inches; width, 3 feet 2 inches. 


276—CHINESE ImpERIAL BrocapE Tasite Cover (Chen-lung) 


Quadrilateral, with broadly rounded corners. Composite 
geometrical and floral latticed ornamentation throughout, 
the pattern in the centre being brightened by a plenitude 
of golden-yellow, amid various reds, blues and greens, 
whereas in the broad border the same colors appear more 


quietly on a rich olive ground. 
Length, 5 feet; width, 4 feet. 


277—CuHInEsE Sirk Emsrorery Taste Cover (Ch%en-lung) 
Oblong. A soft brownish-buff silk ground with a low toned 
dull-golden sheen is embroidered in light and dark blue, 
black, white, and yellowish greens, with twelve dragons 
among foliar scrolls and cloud forms. Narrow border of 
bats, blossoms and symbols in azure and silver-white on a 


black ground. 
Length, 6 feet 1 inch; width, 3 feet 2Y, inches. 


No. 274—MANDARIN’S COAT IN SILK EMBROIDERY 


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278—-CHINESE Sik Vetver Haneine (K’ang-hst) 
Composed of four squares woven as one long strip. Golden- 
pink velvet on drap d’or ground, in each square an expansive 
bloom of the tree peony, with a bat hovering over, and a 
border of conventional chrysanthemum scroll. 


Length, 7 feet 9 inches; width, 231/, inches. 


279—CuHINESE ImpERIAL Brocapr Hanerne (K’ang-hsi) 


On a greenish bronze ground of golden note a single huge 
five-clawed dragon worked in gold, his coils enfolding the 
sacred jewel, with his fiery breath in red and cloud scrolls 
and waves in blue, white, yellow, green, purple and topaz. 
Across the top a band of ten dragons in gold amid: poly- 
chrome clouds, on a ground of rich purple-blue. 


Length, 7 feet; width, 8 feet. 
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2€0—CuInEsE Si1uK VELVET Haneine (K’ang-hsi) 


A large oblong centre or central field displays one hundred 
bold Shou characters in ten columns, in velvet of pale old- 
gold hue on a cloth-of-gold ground of warm tone. ‘This 
is surrounded by a broad border of emerald-green, showing 
bats among clouds, and at the top additional ideographs, 
the patterns left in uncut velvet on a cut velvet ground; 
brilliant emerald sheen. 


Length, 9 feet 5 inches; width, 5 feet 5 inches. 


281—CuineEsE Imprer1aAL BrocapE Haneine ((K’ang-hsi) 


Picturing huge five-clawed dragons in gold, and cloud and 
flame scrolls in brilliant colors, on an olive-brown ground. 


Length, 10 feet 6 inches; width, 8 feet 4 inches. 


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282—CHInEsE ImperstAL BrocapE Haneine (K’ang-hst) 


Two huge imperial dragons mount among cloud scrolls 
above sea waves, the whole executed in scarlet and white 
and brilliant azure, gold, and soft tones of green, blue and 
brown, on a golden-olive ground. 


Length, 10 feet 914, inches; width, 8 feet 41% inches. 


283—CuHINEsE VeLveT Hanoine (K’ang-hsi) 
A gorgeous production in silk velvet of a soft and glowing 
hight golden yellow, carrying a luxurious ornamentation 
interwoven in gold thread, representative of the Taoist 
paradise. In the centre a pavilion appears among clouds, 
above waves of the sea, with a stork soaring over it and 
still higher a haloed figure borne upon another stork and 
attended by. two fan bearers. At the sides are figures of — 
immortals with symbols, and at the bottom lotus foliations. 
Bordered with blue silk brocade, with floral patterns in soft 


colors. Length, 12 feet; width, 6 feet. 


284—CHINESE SILK EmsBroipery Haneine (Chien-lung) 


Ground of soft old-rose silk, heavily embroidered in silk 
and gold with a huge Fu-lion and lotus plants, wave forms 
and symbols, a canopy and pendants, and ideographic in- 
scriptions, the lion being almost wholly in gold and the 
various colors including lush greens, rich blues, glowing ~ 


reds, yellow and white. 
Length, 15 feet 6 inches; width, 11 feet. 


285—CuHINEsE ImperiaL Brocape Door Curtarn (K’ang-hst) 


Across the top a solid band or strip in which imperial 
dragons appear among clouds above waves, in gold, red, 
green, brown and white on a dark purple-blue ground. 
Below, the curtain parts at the centre, and the decorative 
motive is continued in the same coloring on a golden-bronze 
satiny ground of greenish trend, only that in place of 
numerous small dragons each half of the curtain displays 
one large dragon, worked in gold. 


Length, 7 feet 10 inches; width, 9 feet. 


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A Collection of Chinese Imperial Brocades Used as the 
Decorations of the Buddha Room in the Imperial Palace at 
Peking. 


286—CurnesE ImperiaL Brocapre Hanerine (K’ang-hst) 
In long banner form, the ground a rich cerulean throughout. 
In the upper portion a large square outlined in white en- 
closes two imperial dragons about a Shou character, amid 
wave and cloud scrolls, worked in a pale greenish old-gold, 
flame pink and white, the square surrounded by a border of 
eight dragons. Below this two more dragons guard the 
jewel of omnipotence, their bodies extending down the long 
flowing ends of the banner, all in the same color scheme. 
The inner sides of the ends are cut in ju-i sceptre-head form, 
and between them is another sceptre-head, pendent. 


Length, 11 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 2 inches. 


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287—CuinesE ImperiaL BrocapE Hanerne (K’ang-hst) 
Companion to the preceding. 


Length, 11 feet 9 inches; width, 4 feet. 


288—CuinEsE ImpertAL BrocapE Hanerne (K’ang-hst) 
Companion to the preceding. 


Length, 11 feet 10 inches; width, 4 feet. 


289—CnuinEsE ImperiaL BrocapE Haneine (K’ang-hsi) 
Quadrilateral. Decoration, two dragons guarding a Shou 
character, among clouds, within an oblong field, surrounded 
by a border of eight dragons grasping in pairs for the 
flaming pearls of omnipotence, the whole in a soft old-gold, 
white and pink on a deep cerulean ground. 


Length, 5 feet 9 inches; width, 4 feet 2 inches. 


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290—CuHINEsE IMPERIAL BrocapE Hanerne (K’ang-hst) 
Companion to the preceding. 
Length, 5 feet 9 inches; width, 3 feet 11 inches. 


291—CuineEsE Imperiat BrocapE Hanerne (K’ang-hst) 


Companion to the preceding. 
Length, 5 feet 9 inches; width, 4 feet. 


292—CutnEsE Imperiat BrocapE Haneine (K’ang-hst) 

In form of a long strip, the ground a slightly greenish sky- 
blue, with a border of dragons in a soft silvery white and 
cream white, the long blue field marked by a column of 
bold characters which show the original deeper blue of the 
ground, the gold embroidery in which they were executed 
having been abstracted. .At the bottom of the field the 
border takes the design of waves, clouds and symbols, and 
below this two more dragons grasping for the jewel of 
power extend down the short flowing ends of the fabric, 
between which is cut a pendent sceptre-head. 

Length, 17 feet 5 inches; width, 251%, inches. 


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293—CHINEsE ImpeRtIAL BrocapE Haneine (K’ang-hsi) 


Companion to the preceding; through the action of light 
and long exposure the color in the lower part has turned 
to a more pronounced greenish tone. 


Length, 17 feet 5 inches; width, 251, inches. 
(Illustrated) 


294—CnInEsE ImperiaL BrocapE Haneine (K’ang-hst) 
Companion to the preceding and similarly turned, through- 
out a large part of its length, to a greenish tone. 
Length, 17 feet 11 inches; width, 2514, inches. 


295—CuinEsE Imperiat BrocapE Haneine (K’ang-hst) 


Companion to the preceding, and largely turned to the 


greenish hue. 
Length, 17 feet 7 inches; width, 2514 inches. 


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296—CurneEsE Imperiat Brocape Haneine (K’ang-hst) 


Quadrilateral. Rich and deep cerulean ground, with an 
ornamentation in a warm and soft old-gold, white and a 
full-bodied pink, depicting in the field two imperial dragons 
and a Shou character among cloud scrolls, the field set 
within a border of eight more dragons with the flaming 
jewels, in the same coloring. 


Length, 6 feet; width, 4 feet 21, inches. 


297—CuINEsE ImperiaL Brocape Haneine (K’ang-hst) 
Companion to the preceding, the pink somewhat pale. 
Length, 5 feet 101, inches; width, 3 feet 10 inches. 


298—CurInEsE ImperiaL BrocapeE Hancine (K’ang-hsi) 


Companion to the preceding, with the fuller quality of 
pink. | 
Length, 5 feet 1014 inches; width, 3 feet 10 inches. 


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299—CHINESE EMBROIDERED SILK Brp Canopy 


Four-sided, with top; opened down the front at the centre, 
the two parts widely overlapping when closed. Fine thin 
silk of delicate greenish-white tone, embroidered on all sides 
with orchids, and on the side opposite entrance with a jardi- 
niere and vases of them, in soft emerald-green and fawn, 
white and varied blues, and heavy gold. The top, trans- 
parent sky-blue silk brocade patterned with Shou medal- 
hons and clouds. Suspended from four tall lacquer stand- 
ards, with dragon brackets or arms at top and square bases, 
decorated with landscapes, lotus flowers and other motives. 
Height, 6 feet 5 inches (on the front curtains there is a drop of 
121, inches additional, to allow the fabric to retain contact 
with the floor when the curtains are moved for ingress or 
egress); length, 7 feet 1 inch; width, 4 feet 9 inches; height of 
standards, 7 feet 5 inches. 


No. 298—CHINESE IMPERIAL BROCADE HANGING (K’ang-hsi) 


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300—TrEakwoop anv Tapestry Screen (Ch’ien-lung) 


Five-fold, the central fold the highest, and its neighboring 
sections taller than the wings. The frame teakwood, with 
decorations carved in relief and incised, and penciled in 
gold. The principal panels tapestries woven in soft neutral 
colors on a golden ground, with imposing personages in 
palace and gardens, and lancers, swordsmen and warriors 
with battle-axes, mounted and afoot, on land and on waves, 
before castellated walls. Subsidiary panels of rich bro- 
cade in floral and fruit motives. Backs in golden-yellow 


brocade. 
Height, 6 feet 1 inch (wings, 5 feet 51% inches). 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUGS AND CARPETS 


301—AntiavuE CuinesE Mat (Ch’ien-lung) i 
Thick, soft, velvety pile. Field with a light golden-tan 
sheen, decorated with a composite medallion, household orna- 
ments, and peony and archaic pheenix-scroll corners, in 
orange-brown, white, and light and dark blue. Dot and 


fret borders. 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


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302—AntTIQuE CHINESE Mat (Ch’ten-lung) 


Soft, loose pile. A field of swastika lattice in dark sap- 
phire on a ground of grayish turquoise is broken at the 
centre by a large medallion, and supports detached sprays, 
in light golden yellow, pink, and browns. Border of sprays 
and the endless-knot, in the brighter colors on a dark sap- 


phire ground. 
Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 3 feet. 


303 


AntTIQqUE CHINESE Mat (Ch’ten-lung) 


Soft, thick pile. Peach-red field with downy sheen, having 
a decoration in sapphire and turquoise blue, golden yellow, 
white and chocolate-brown, of fruit clusters, flower sprays 
and butterflies, and a central medallion and peony corners. 
Conventional peony scroll border with bats and Shou medal- 


lions. 
Length, 5 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 7 inches. 


304—AntiauE CuinesE Rue (Clien-lung) 


Rectangular field of pinkish apricot with soft sheen, sprin- 
kled with sprays of plum, chrysanthemum and peony, and 
clusters of citron, peaches and pomegranates, amongst 
which conventional butterflies are scattered, all in white, 
turquoise and sapphire blue, and greenish old-gold. Border 
of the peony design in the several colors on gold ground. 


Length, 6 feet 5 inches; width, 4 feet 4 inches. 


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SON2oA nia ee CHINESE Rue (K’ang-hsi) 


Short silky pile. A soft apricot field is threaded by a 
foliar scroll in light golden yellow, on which are implanted 
large conventional peony figures in turquoise and sapphire 
and a richer golden yellow. Swastika border in sapphire 
on apricot, and soft brown boundary band. 


Length, 6 feet 10 inches; width, 3 feet 10 inches. 


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306—Antiaue CHINESE Rue (Ch’ien-lung) 
Storks in white, light blue, rich brown and golden yellow 
appear in a central medallion, and among cloud-scrolls of 
sapphire, turquoise and white, on a broad field of soft 
apricot. Peony design border in white and the two blues 
on a bright golden yellow ground. 


Length, 6 feet 10 inches; width, 4 feet 5 inches. 


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307—AntTIavE CuinesE Rue (K’ang-hst) 

Quadrilateral fieled of deep sapphire-blue, with a rich peony 
scroll of highly conventionalized form, including stems and 
tendrils and leaves of various sizes, and large blossoms 
sometimes solid and sometimes of interrupted form, worked 
in a brownish golden-yellow, rich café-au-lait, white and 
light turquoise-blue. Key-fret border in two tones of 
brown, between white and turquoise guard stripes, swastika- 
fret border in sapphire on brown, and beyond other brown 
and bolden guard stripes an exterior band of soft camel’s- 
hair brown, 


Length, 8 feet 4 inches; width, 6 feet 4 inches. 


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308—ANTIQUE CHINESE Rue (Ch’ien-lung) . 

Soft, silky pile. Rectangular field of rich apricot with a 
fine light sheen, its ornamentation a profuse peony scroll 
with large and small flowers and interlacing foliations 
worked in deep sapphire, light turquoise and white. Guard 
stripes in the three colors embrace a border of golden yel- 
low, to which the same decorative coloring is carried over 
in an ogre scroll and foliated figures. Exterior band of 
camel’s hair in chestnut brown. 


Length, 8 feet 6 inches; width, 5 feet 9 inches. 


309—AntTiauE CHINESE Rue 
Soft red ground in field and border, the border a swastika 
fret in. deep dark blue, the field decoration medallions, 
sprays and corners, all in the peony motive, in light and 


dark blue and white. 
Length, 8 feet 7 inches; width, 5 feet 7 inches. 


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310—AntTiquE Cuinese Rue (Ch’ien-lung) 
Soft, close, silky pile. In the oblong field, on an old-rose 
ground with delicate sheen, the hundred antiques decoration 
in pale turquoise and deep sapphire blue, white and golden- 
yellow, with dark brown. Lattice and swastika-fret bor- 
ders, with intervening stripes, in the several colors, and 
brown exterior band. 


Length, 8 feet 7 inches; width, 5 feet 9 inches. 


311—AntTiquE CHINESE Rue (Ch’ien-lung) 


On an apricot field with archaic dragon-scroll corners in 
two blues and white, an affluent peony scroll in ight golden- 
yellow with blossoms in white and the two blues, surround- 
ing an archaic phoenix medallion in the same colors. Pale 
golden border bearing scrolls in the other colors, and brown 
boundary band. 

Length, 8 feet 9 inches; width, 5 feet 5 inches. 


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312—AntiauE CHINESE Rue (Ch’ten-lung) | 
Rectangular field of deep sapphire swastika-lattice, on a 
ground, originally white, become a soft gris-souris, the lat- 
tice interrupted at regular intervals by formal floral figures 
in apricot and peach notes, brown and a dull golden yellow. 
Two richly colored lattice and fret borders and an exterior 
band of sapphire-blue. 


Length, 8 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 5 inches, 


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313—AntievE Cuinese Rue (Ch’ien-lung) 


Thick pile. Light, soft yellow field of dull golden note, 
semé with small blossoms, singly and in clusters, among 
which circulate large butterflies, in apricot tones, dark 
sapphire, light turquoise and white. Guard stripes of sap- 


phire and turquoise, and a broad outer border or band of 
solid blue, of dark sapphire note. 


Length, 10 feet 2 inches; width, 5 feet 10 inches. 


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314—AnrTIQuE CHINESE Rue (Ming) 

Presenting a mingling of soft and quiet tawny tones, en- 
riched with a deep blue of sapphire quality and soft sheen, 
and in turn lightly relieved by a pale grayish-turquoise with 
delicate greenish trend. The field is given to a luxuriant, 
highly conventionalized floral scroll, suggesting the peony 
but with chrysanthemum and lotus elements, worked in 
tawny hues with a modicum of the turquoise, within the rich 
sapphire ground. At centre an archaic dragon medallion; 
corners in the same archaic motive. ‘Two broad borders, 
and a solid exterior band. 


Length, 8 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 11 inches. 


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315—AnTIQUE CHINESE Ruc (K’ang-hst) 
Blue and white rectangular field, the ground white, bearing 
eighteen floral-scroll medallions each enclosed within angu- 
lar-scroll corners, in rich and deep sapphire-blue. Key- 
fret border in pale rose and sapphire, and swastika border 
in sapphire on a golden-apricot ground. 


Length, 9 feet; width, 5 feet 5 inches. 


316—AntievE CHinresE Rue (Chien-lung ) 


Rich golden-orange field, on which are implanted a peony 
medallion enclosing a medallion of five dogs Fu, huge peony 
sprays and corners, sprays of plum and chrysanthemum, 
and conventional bats and butterflies, executed in light and 
dark blue, white, brown, peach-red and golden yellow. 
Golden yellow T-fret border and scroll border in the peony 


design. 
Length, 9 feet 2 inches; width, 6 feet 8 inches. 


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317—AnTIQUE CHINESE Rue (K’ang-hsi) 
Rectilinear field marked off by four guard stripes, the 
whole of it given over to a geometrical ornamentation of 
interlacing angular figures, in pale turquoise and rich sap- 
phire blue, white and golden tones, on a pinkish-apricot 
ground. Swastika-lattice border in deep sapphire on light 


gold. 
Length, 8 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet 3 inches. 


318—AntTiavE CuinEsE Rue (Ch’ien-lung) 
Oblong field of soft creamy white, adorned in golden yellow, 
peach-red, apricot-brown, turquoise and sapphire blue, with 
a large double medallion, corners and large sprays in the 
peony motive, and other sprays of plum, lotus, peach and 
pomegranate. ‘T-fret border, and swastika-fret border 
overlain by sprays; sapphire-blue exterior band with soft 


sheen. 
Length, 10 feet 7 inches; width, 6 feet 2 inches. 


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319—AnTIQUE CHINESE Rue (K’ang-hst) 
A bold conventional floral scroll in greenish turquoise-blue 
and deep sapphire-blue is woven throughout a rectilinear 
field of brownish-yellow tawny note, with a soft sheen, 
bounded by a rich seal-brown guard stripe. Swastika-fret 
border in pale grayish turquoise-blue and a light, warm tan. 


Length, 10 feet 8 inches; width, 6 feet 6 inches. 


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320—AnTIQUE CHINESE Rue (Ch’ien-lung) 
Long close-lying loose pile. On a rich apricot field a 
swastika lattice in light golden yellow, a foliate medallion 
in the golden yellow at the centre enclosing a circular 
medallion of floral motive in light and dark blue, white 
and brown; at ends wave motive, and striated pattern, 
with a flame pink appearing with the other colors. Along 
sides, conventional peony border on rich sapphire-blue 


ground. 
Length, 7 feet 5 inches; width, 4 feet. 


321—AnTIQUE CHINESE Rue (Chten-lung) 
Soft peach-toned ground, brilliantly illuminated with rich 
golden yellow, white, pale, delicate turquoise-blue and rich 
sapphire-blue, and varied notes of golden brown, found in 
fruit and plant forms and butterflies, a medallion and for- 
mal corners. Peony and scroll border in the same bright 
colors on the same ground. 


Length, 10 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 5 inches. 


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322—AnTIQUE CHINESE Rue (K’ang-hst) 
The whole broad field given to an octagonal lattice pattern 
in pale grayish-turquoise, threaded by a deep, rich brown, 
on a tawny ground, with the lattice crossmgs marked by 
quadrangular figures in brown enclosing four small squares 
of light apricot. Swastika-fret border in dark sapphire 


blue. 
Length, 11 feet 5 inches; width, 6 feet 3 inches. 


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323—ANTIQUE CHINESE Carpet (Ch’ien-lung) 


' Blue and white. Soft deep pile. On a rich cream-white 
ground with a delicate sheen, which extends both through — 
field and borders, an elaborate decoration in gray-blue and 
deep sapphire-blue, with the use here and there of stippled 
effects. The field has extensive borders, in the peony mo- 
tive, between which and a large peony medallion in the cen- 
tre lie sprays and baskets of flowers and fruits, with table 
screens, brush holders and other objects of the cultivated 
household. A T-fret border is followed by a bold peony 
pattern border, and that by an exterior band of rich 


sapphire-blue. 


Length, 12 feet 10 inches; width, 11 feet 4 inches. 


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324—Antiaue CHINESE Carper (K’ang-hst) 


Soft velvety pile. Large square field in a dark tawny 
brown of rich quality, wholly given over to a highly elabo- 
rated peony scroll in a fine deep sapphire blue, with unob- 
trusive reliefs here and there in a quiet yellow and soft tur- 
quoise in details of the lesser blossoms. A narrow key-fret 
border on yellow ground is succeeded by a bolder swastika 
border on a ground of the field color, both in the deep sap- 
phire, with guard stripes of grayish turquoise, and a 
boundary band of dark brown camel’s hair encompasses the 


whole. 
Length, 14 feet 5 inches; width, 13 feet 2 inches. 


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325—AnTIQUE CHINESE Carpet (A’ang-hsi) 
Dense, short, firm pile, of soft, silky surface. The great 
square field of soft apricot brown carries a finely woven 
lattice in rich deep brown outlined with pale turquoise, at 
the lattice-crossings being small parallelograms in the deep 
brown enclosing yellowish fields with brown dots, and the 
larger lattice spaces bearing rosettes in a faint golden- 
yellow. At the centre a large medallion enclosing a smaller 
one, both in the archaic dragon motive and both in rich 
sapphire-blue. Floral-lattice and swastika-fret borders 
involving the several colors, and a broad exterior band of 


dark brown. 
Length, 15 feet 10 inches; width, 15 feet 2 inches. 


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326—ANTIQUE CHINESE Carpet (Ch’ien-lung) | 

Blue and white, with warmer color added. Deep, loose pile. 
The “white” field has a pale tan surface, with a delicate 
sheen, and the same ground color runs through the three 
borders to a broad boundary band of rich sapphire-blue, 
the borders being respectively a floral lattice, a swastika- 
fret and a peony scroll. The field decoration is in deep 
sapphire and a dark grayish-blue, warmed by notes of 
apricot-brown and peach-red, and consists of a medallion 
of nine dogs Fu enclosed within a medallion of angular- 
scroll, that in turn surrounded by a peony-scroll medallion, 
and of large sprays and vases of flowers and fruits, besides 
great formal corners involving both the peony and the 
archaic dragon-scroll. 


Length, 20 feet 7 inches; width, 18 feet 2 inches. 


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